The Green Berets (film)
The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film set in Vietnam, featuring John Wayne, Jim Hutton, David Janssen, Aldo Ray, Patrick Wayne, Jack Soo and George Takei, nominally based on the eponymous 1965 book by Robin Moore, though the screenplay has little relation to the book.
At Fort Bragg, cynical newspaper reporter George Beckworth David Janssen is at a Special Forces briefing about the American military involvement in the war in Vietnam. The briefing at Gabriel Demonstration Area named for SGT Jimmy Gabriel, the first Green Beret soldier killed in Vietnam, includes a demonstration and explanation of the whys and wherefores of participating in the Vietnam War.Skeptical civilians and journalists are told that multinational Communism is what the U.S. is fighting in Vietnam proof weapons and equipment, captured from North Vietnamese soldiers and Vietcong guerrillas, manufactured in the Soviet Union, Communist Czechoslovakia, and Communist China. Despite that, Beckworth remains skeptical about the value of intervening in Vietnams civil war. When asked by Green Beret Colonel Mike Kirby John Wayne if he had ever been to Southeast Asia, reporter Beckworth replies that he had not, prompting a discourteous acknowledgement of his opinion. Realizing his ignorance, Beckworth decides to go incountry to report on what he finds there so he may better his argument that America needs to stop participating in this unwinnable war. ........
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