The Green Berets

original title:
The Green Berets
other titles:
(Die grünen Teufel)
country / year of production:
USA / 1968
original length:
141 min. , color
premiere:
17 June 1968
genre:
adventure
based on:
Robin Moore. The Green Berets. New York: Crown Publishers, 1965.
director:
Ray Kellogg , John Wayne
film script:
James Lee Barrett , Kenneth B. Facey , Robin Moore
producer:
Michael Wayne
cinematographer:
Winton C. Hoch
editor:
Otho Lovering
composer:
Miklós Rózsa
cast (role):
John Wayne (Colonel Mike Kirby) , David Janssen (George Beckworth) , James Hutton (Sergeant Petersen) , Aldo Ray (Sergeant Muldoon) , Raymond St. Jacques (Doc McGee) , John Wayne , David Janssen , James Hutton , Aldo Ray , Raymond St. Jacques
more:
plot synopsis:
The hard-nosed rough-and-ready Colonel Mike Kirby who heads a courageous bunch of tough-as-nails Green Berets determined to capture an important enemy general. They are accompanied by a skeptical reporter who soon becomes a gung-ho red-white-and-blue patriot as the Colonel and the others lecture and show him why they must defeat the "commies".
keywords:
special forces , jungle , single fighter , hostage
war:
Vietnam War (1946-1975)
literature:
Lawrence Suid. "The Making of `The Green Berets´". In: Journal of Popular Film 6 (1977), 106-125.

David Everett Whillock. „The Fictive American Vietnam Film: A Structural Analysis of Myth Based on the Theories of Claude Levi-Strauss.“ Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987), 10, 3592A-3593A.
remarks:
"Green Berets" is the only major Hollywood film about the war in Vietnam produced during the conflict. Often condemned by critics because of its clichée-ridden presentation and simplistic
describtion of the war`s political circumstances. Despite these objections and massive anti-war sentiments of the times, the ended up with $11 million at the box-office.
availability:
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