Green Berets [VHS]

Green Berets [VHS]
from Warner Home Video
starring Luke Askew, Bruce Cabot, Eddy Donno, Jason Evers, Edward Faulkner
directed by John Wayne, Ray Kellogg

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• HiFi Sound
• NTSC

Editorial Review:

Anyone who fought in Vietnam can tell you that the war bore little resemblance to this propagandistic action film starring and codirected by John Wayne. But the film itself is not nearly as bad as its reputation would suggest; critics roasted its gung-ho politics while ignoring its merits as an exciting (if rather conventional and idealistic) war movie. Some notorious mistakes were made--in the final shot, the sun sets in the east!--and it's an awkward attempt to graft WWII heroics onto the Vietnam experience. But as the Duke's attempt to acknowledge the men who were fighting and dying overseas, it's a rousing film in which Wayne commands a regiment on a mission to kidnap a Viet Cong general. David Janssen plays a journalist who learns to understand Wayne's commitment to battling Communism, and Jim Hutton (Timothy's dad) plays an ill-fated soldier who adopts a Vietnamese orphan. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• great patriot
  great movie, don't make them like this any longer. John Wayne, the only actor who had the guts to stand up to the Hollywood liberals. To the joker who said he avoided service in WWII, who like the joker we have in the White House now!

• green berets
  This dvd was a rip off ,it whent half way it stopped and started over the full movie was not there,I AM VERY MaD,they need to be done over and checked so they get what they buy........

• The Green Berets
  I received the DVD in a very timely manner. I plan to do business with Amazon again. Thank you.

• So-So War Flick; Seen Better, Seen Worse
  There are some good battle scenes in here, particularly at night. Other than that, it's a so-so war movie and a little long. At 141 minutes, it could have been a lot better cut to two hours or even less.
  There is an interesting lecture to the press by the military early on and that's worth listening to, whether you agree with it or not. John Wayne played his normal tough-on-the-outside-but very human-on-the-inside role, which he so often did in his westerns. This movie also was made right when the Hays... more info

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