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Nov 8, 2019 · Danger Close: Directed by Kriv Stenders. With Travis Fimmel, Toby Blome, Alexander England, Aaron Glenane. In August 1966, in a Vietnamese rubber plantation called Long Tan, 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives against 2500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers.
- (15K)
- Action, Drama, War
- Kriv Stenders
- 2019-11-08
Plot. The film opens with a mortar attack on the 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) base at Nui Dat by the Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). During the attack, Major Harry Smith is cool under fire, ordering his men to take cover and stand to, while other soldiers don't take it seriously, playing cards or drinking beer.
- $2 million
- August 8, 2019 (Australia)
- $24 million AUD
- Caitlin Yeo
South Vietnam, late afternoon on August 18, 1966 - for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500 battle hardened Main Force ...
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Nov 8, 2019 · Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They ...
About this movie. Outnumbered, outgunned, never out of courage - 'Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan' is an exhilarating and hard-hitting war thriller based on the unbelievable true story of The Battle of Long Tan. Major Harry Smith (Travis Fimmel) and his company of 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting ...
Nov 8, 2019 · Film Review: ‘Danger Close’. A familiar but effective fact-based Vietnam War drama about an undermanned company of Australian and New Zealand soldiers under attack. By turns viscerally ...
Jul 20, 2019 · Dir. Kriv Stenders. Australia. 2019. 118mins. With a thick vein of relentlessness, Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan chronicles one of the Vietnam War’s lesser-known clashes: a 1966 ...
