{"id":40283,"date":"2018-09-18T13:24:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=40283"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T18:13:02","slug":"green-berets-the-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=40283","title":{"rendered":"Green Berets, The (1968)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Out here, due process is a bullet!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Poster-201x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-55382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Poster-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Poster-685x1024.png 685w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Poster-86x128.png 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Poster-181x270.png 181w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Poster.png 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA cynical reporter (David Janssen) follows Colonel Kirby (John Wayne) to a post in Vietnam, where Kirby&#8217;s special forces troop &#8212; including a captain (Edward Faulkner), a supplies specialist (Jim Hutton) who has befriended a young war orphan (Craig Jue), a master sergeant (Aldo Ray), and a medical sergeant (Raymond St. Jacques) &#8212; join forces with an ARVN captain (George Takei) to capture a high-level Viet Cong officer.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aldo Ray Films<\/li>\n<li>Jim Hutton Films<\/li>\n<li>John Wayne Films<\/li>\n<li>Soldiers<\/li>\n<li>Vietnam War<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAfter a trip to South Vietnam in 1966, John Wayne &#8212; who was a staunch supporter of America&#8217;s involvement in the war &#8212; decided to produce a film about our special forces&#8217; efforts there, and ended up co-directing and starring in this earnest yet dated and politically lopsided flick, based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Green_Berets_(book)\">best-selling novel by Robin Moore<\/a>. In a post-Vietnam era, the platitudinous dialogue is simply ripe for satirizing, as evidenced by this exchange: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Colonel Morgan (Bruce Cabot)<\/strong> <em>[referring to Irene Tsu]<\/em>: Her name is Lin. Her father was chief of the Han Phou provence.<br \/>\n<strong>Colonel Cai (Jack Soo):<\/strong> Until he refused to cooperate with the Viet Cong.<br \/>\n<strong>Colonel Kirby:<\/strong> So, they killed him.<br \/>\n<strong>Colonel Cai:<\/strong> They murdered him and her little brother in the most hideous way.<br \/>\n<strong>Colonel Kirby: <\/strong>That&#8217;s their style.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As seen in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War_in_film\">this overview of films made about the Vietnam War<\/a>, <em>The Green Berets<\/em> was one of the earliest, and (perhaps appropriately) reflects the naivete and ignorance of Americans at the time. It wasn&#8217;t until ten years later, after the conflict had officially ended, that movies were finally released which showed a more nuanced perspective. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fine cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Cinematography-1024x427.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-40874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Cinematography-1024x427.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Cinematography-128x53.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Cinematography-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Cinematography-768x320.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Green-Berets-Cinematography.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo. Listed as a Camp Classic in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063035\/?\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1968\/06\/20\/archives\/screen-green-berets-as-viewed-by-john-waynewar-movie-arrives-at-the.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/reviews\/39682\/green-berets-the\/\">DVD Talk Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/21344\/the-green-berets#articles-reviews?articleId=88176\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s3099bere.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Out here, due process is a bullet!&#8221; Synopsis: A cynical reporter (David Janssen) follows Colonel Kirby (John Wayne) to a post in Vietnam, where Kirby&#8217;s special forces troop &#8212; including a captain (Edward Faulkner), a supplies specialist (Jim Hutton) who has befriended a young war orphan (Craig Jue), a master sergeant (Aldo Ray), and a medical sergeant (Raymond St. Jacques) &#8212; join forces with an ARVN captain (George Takei) to capture a high-level Viet Cong officer. Genres, Themes, Actors, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=40283\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40283"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90680,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283\/revisions\/90680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}