Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement finds similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before.
- vietnam war
- vietnam
- based on novel or book
- major
- 1960s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Burt Lancaster
Maj. Asa Barker
Craig Wasson
Cpl. Courcey
Marc Singer
Capt. Alfred Olivetti
Joe Unger
Lt. Raymond Hamilton
- David Clennon — Lt. Finley Wattsberg
- Evan C. Kim — Cowboy
- John Megna — Cpl. Ackley
- Hilly Hicks — Signalman Toffer
- Dolph Sweet — Gen. Harnitz
- Clyde Kusatsu — Col. Minh
- James Hong — The Old Man
- Dennis Howard — Cpl. Abraham Lincoln
- Denice Kumagai — Butterfly
- Tad Horino — One-eyed man
- Jonathan Goldsmith — Sgt. Oleonowski
- Directed
- Ted Post
- Written
- Wendell Mayes
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 65 ratings
- Studio
- Mar Vista Productions, Spartan Film Partners
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
