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Features: DVD
They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces - and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War: The Green Berets.
John Wayne stars in and co-directs this red-white-and-blue depiction of America's Vietnam effort, based on Robin Moore's novel. Wayne wrote to President Lyndon Johnson to request military assistance for the film - and got more than enough firepower to create an impressive spectacle.
Its soldiers fit the tried-and-true mold of earlier Wayne war classics like Back to Bataan and Sands of Iwo Jima. Their heroics are timeless.
Editor's Note
One of the first American films specifically about the Vietnam War was also one of the most hawkish, offering a pro-intervention perspective at the height of the conflict. Filmed along the conventions of a World War II action drama, a gung-ho colonel battles the vicious Viet Cong while protecting innocent civilians, befriending an orphaned boy, and reforming a liberal newspaperman's misguided political views.
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Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Letterbox - 1.85 | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers: Original Theatrical (7) | | Interactive Features:
| Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Text/Photo Galleries:
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 9/14/2004 |
| Running Time: 141 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1968 | | Catalog ID: 1002 | | UPC: 00012569100220 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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