Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Philippines, Australia
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it.
- vietnam war
- vietcong
- embassy
- siege
- sergeant
- massacre
- u.s. marine
- tet offensive
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Wings Hauser
Cpl. Joseph L. 'Nard' DiNardo
R. Lee Ermey
Sgt. Maj. Bill Hafner / Narrator
Robert Arevalo
Cao Van
Margaret Gerard
Capt. Kathy Flanagan, MD
- Mark Neely — Pvt. Murphy
- Gary Hershberger — Capt. A.J. 'Bugs' Moran
- Clyde Jones — Coates
- Richard Kuhlman — Ghost
- John Calvin — C.O. Williams
- Albert Popwell — Jones
- Michael Cruz — Vietnamese Child
- Erich Hauser — Patrol Member
- Guel Romero — Patrol Member
- Donald Wilson — Patrol Member
- Nick Nicholson — Photographer
- Directed
- Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Written
- William L. Nagle, Tony Johnston
Production
- Rating
- 5.6 / 10 · 61 ratings
- Studio
- International Film Management, Fries Entertainment, Eastern Film Management Corporation, Bancannia Holdings Pty. Ltd.
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.
