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The Green Berets | 
| Directors: John Wayne, Mervyn Leroy, Ray Kellogg
Actors: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Raymond St. Jacques
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $12.98
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Rating:  112 reviews
Sales Rank: 4187
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Vietnamese (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 142 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD115860D
UPC: 085391158608
EAN: 0085391158608
ASIN: B000O599YO
Theatrical Release Date: 1968
Release Date: May 22, 2007
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Condition: ORIGINAL CASE,..DISC,..NO ARTWORK,...100 % GUARANTEED,...NO SCRATCHES,..
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Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/22/2007 Run time: 141 minutes Rating: G
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Anyone who fought in Vietnam can tell you that the war bore little resemblance to this propagandistic action film starring and codirected by John Wayne. But the film itself is not nearly as bad as its reputation would suggest; critics roasted its gung-ho politics while ignoring its merits as an exciting (if rather conventional and idealistic) war movie. Some notorious mistakes were made--in the final shot, the sun sets in the east!--and it's an awkward attempt to graft WWII heroics onto the Vietnam experience. But as the Duke's attempt to acknowledge the men who were fighting and dying overseas, it's a rousing film in which Wayne commands a regiment on a mission to kidnap a Viet Cong general. David Janssen plays a journalist who learns to understand Wayne's commitment to battling Communism, and Jim Hutton (Timothy's dad) plays an ill-fated soldier who adopts a Vietnamese orphan. In addition to its widescreen image, the digital video disc includes a promotional featurette and seven different theatrical trailers. --Jeff Shannon
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 A silly movie, but still good for a laugh September 2, 2008
another reader
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wayne avoided military service during World War Two, and it shows in the movie. For example, Wayne repeatedly uses his rifle to gesture toward someone, a flagrant mistake that a recruit with one week of training would not make. Appropriately, at the movie's end the sun sinks in the east as Wayne and a Vietnamese child gaze out to sea. The movie's grasp of the war in Vietnam is as confused as its grasp of geography.
 Motion Picture; "The Green Berets" September 1, 2008
R. P. Smith (Rockport, Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those who are fans of "The Duke" (John Wayne). This is yet another example of a very good John Wayne movie. Though the subject matter is controvercial, even today. If your a fan of "War Movies", this film is quite good, and an excellent addition to any collection. The story presentation would be considered weak by today's standards, as would the special effects. Still, not bad considering the period. There were a few touching moments to the story, which added a nice diversity, as opposed to the action which, as I said before, is period specific to 1967-68 when this was filmed.The best that Hollywood could do at the time. Overall, still worth adding to one's collection.
 The Geen Beret - The Best July 27, 2008
Jacquelyn K. Cook (Fort Myers, Florida)
I have seen this movie several times throughout my life. It is a wonderful picture with emotions from the war and it always brings back my childhood since my Dad was in the military and was in Vietnam.
A Rugged History Lesson July 12, 2008
John C. Sullivan (Syracuse, New York)
John Wayne stays true to form in this early view of the Viet Nam War. Full of action and intrigue as it takes a look at the Green Berets in battle.At the time John Wayne made this motion picture, The Viet Nam War was controversial and the critics numbered many. John Wayne took on the critics and the task of portraying an unpopular war in our nation's history. This movie is for those fans who love John Wayne in the thick of battle.
Wayne's War May 20, 2008
L. Cabos (planet earth)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
John Wayne's answer to the anti-war movement was, for a good many years, the only film about Vietnam. It's easy for people to knock this movie or the war itself -- and anyone who thinks the people of South Vietnam are better off under a communist dictatorship than the government they had, then we have nothing to talk about. Actually this was made before she became "Hanoi Jane" -- a tag which follow her to the grave, GREEN BERETS is basically a WWII movie set in Vietnam. It has moments. Also starring David Jansen, Aldo Ray, Jim Hutton, Jason Evers, Bruce Cabot and Mr. Sulu himself, George Takei.
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