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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its exhausted French unit withdrawing through Indochina has the same intimate, unsentimental view of colonial war: dwindling resources, compromised command, and duty persisting long after confidence has gone.
02
Why this pick
A grim, procedural combat film centered on men repeatedly sent to hold a tactically questionable position, matching the weary professionalism and sense of military futility in Go Tell the Spartans.
03
Why this pick
A bitter frontline drama in which capable soldiers confront a disastrous command structure. Its hard-edged moral anger and distrust of heroic war mythology closely suit Ted Post’s film.
04
Why this pick
Though set away from the battlefield, its harsh military hierarchy, battered veterans, and escalating institutional cruelty deliver a similarly stripped-down, anti-romantic war experience.
05
Why this pick
Its mud-level depiction of a costly Vietnam operation favors exhausted camaraderie and mounting disillusionment over spectacle, echoing the fatalistic texture of Go Tell the Spartans.
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01 / THE STORY
Major Asa Barker (Burt Lancaster) has been given command of a poorly-manned outpost overlooking three villages named Boo Jum, Mung Tau & Hat Song. Barker is ordered to re-occupy a nearby, deserted hamlet named Muc Wa in South Vietnam near the rural Da Nang to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, highway that a decade earlier had been the scene of a massacre of French soldiers during the First Indochina War. Barker is a weary infantry veteran in his third war (having served in the Pacific during World War II as well as in the Korean War), who provides veteran supervision to a cadre of advisors attached to a group of South Vietnamese ordered to garrison Muc Wa.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Lt. Raymond Hamilton
Signalman Toffer
The Old Man
Butterfly
Sgt. Oleonowski
Cpl. Courcey
One-eyed man
Maj. Asa Barker
