The Green Berets [Blu-ray]

The Green Berets [Blu-ray] Review

John Wayne, to me, is the consummate actor for the roles he played in his long career in movies. I have been a fan of his and his work since I was a little dude. As an adult I continue to collect his work and enjoy them over and over. I spent 30 years in the Army which started in 1968 and his character and the plot of the movie is very believable and true to the real life war in Vietnam. The rhetoric, clothing, operations and missions and all else about the movie are within acceptable tolerances for this story. The booby traps, the visciousness of the Viet Cong against their own people and the missions are true to life. This movie will be represents actual places, people and events in our military history that should help Americans honor the fewer and fewer Vietnam veterans in our great nation who fought a war that wasn't fought to be won (in my own opinion). A lot of them weren't honored when they came home, they were branded as "baby killers" and the like which caused untold mental agony and distress. God bless 'em (us).
As a side note, his westerns are entertaining and action filled. One of the reasons I enjoy them so much is the screen writer he used for so many years, especially his westerns, James Edward Grant. He is the one who put the Duke's famous phrases onto the screen; phrases like, "a man's got to do what a man's got to do", and "Comfortable?!?! I've been called a lot of things in my life, but comfortable was not one of them." The legend lives on in his movies, as does each of the actors that worked with him for all those decades. He is my favorite western star. The vendor was very particular in the packaging and prompt in getting the DVD out to me. My thanks and kudoes to you and your staff for their attention to detail and professionalism. I'll be back for more.

The Green Berets [Blu-ray] Feature

• GREEN BERETS, THE BLU-RAY (BLU-RAY DISC)

The Green Berets [Blu-ray] Overview

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 01/05/2010 Run time: 141 minutes Rating: G

The Green Berets [Blu-ray] Specifications

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. --Jeff Shannon

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