Go Tell the Spartans

Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film directed by Ted Post, starring Burt Lancaster, and based on Daniel Fords 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa, about U.S. Army military advisors during the early part of the Vietnam War in 1964, a time when Ford was a correspondent in Vietnam for The Nation.

Major Asa Barker Burt Lancaster has been given this command a poorlymanned outpost named Muc Wa in rural South Vietnam somewhere 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 he 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 who garrison the deserted village of Muc Wa.Major Barker and his executive officer, the career orientated Captain Olivetti receive four replacements. Second Lieutenant Hamilton has been passed over for promotion and sees volunteering for Vietnam is a way to obtain a promotion to remain in the Army. First Sergeant Oleozewski served in the Korean War under Major Barker and has been burnt out after three tours in Vietnam his last assignment has his former unit wiped out. Cpl Abraham Lincoln is a combat medic and a drug addict. The mystery to Major Barker is the fourth man, the draftee Cpl. Courcey, a demolitions expert who extended his enlistment by six months to serve in Vietnam. Major Barker sends his four new men plus Cpl. Ackley, a communications expert to garrison Muc Wa with a half French half Vietnamese interpreterinterrogation specialist called Cowboy, a hardcore squad of Nung mercenaries and a motley mob of aboutSouth Vietnamese Popular Force troops armed with shotguns and old rifles to create a defendable firebase at Muc Wa. ........

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