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Genres:
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Drama /
War /
Music
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Director:
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Sidney J. Furie
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Actors:
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Andrew Stevens,
Michael Lembeck,
James Whitmore Jr.,
Santos Morales,
Stan Shaw,
James Canning,
Craig Wasson,
Scott Hylands,
Noble Willingham,
R. Lee Ermey
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Duration:
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125 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)68
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Plot Summary:
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This war drama (which prefigures the later "Uncensored Metal Jacket") follows the lives of five progeny Marine inductees from their training in boot in 1967 help of a tour in Vietnam in 1968 that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. Disheartened by futile contend, appalled at near the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly imperilled by the ineptitude of their own coterie commander, the children men find a plausible way out of the war. They are told that if they can overcome a rival soccer crew, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind th... e lines. But as they effectiveness contain predicted, nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems.
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The Boys in Company C
Along with Coming Place and The Deerhunter, the film belongs to the principal shake of worthy Vietnam dramas annoying to come to terms with America's be victorious over, and is oft cited as prefiguring Kubrick's Greatest Metal Jacket. Following five Marines through boot camping-site, to the nightmare futility of combat, to attempts to escape their living hell, The Boys trots unconscious too many war-movie clichés to mark it at fault from the quality films mentioned (the maladroit commander, the swing 'n' roll music, the pollute foreigners), without donation any insight or invention. Good performance from Ermey as the drill instructor, but then, that was his lifetime drudgery in advance of this sheet.
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