The Green Berets
The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film directed by John Wayne and Ray Kellogg, and starring Wayne, David Janssen and Jim Hutton, based on the 1965 novel by Robin Moore. Much of the film was shot in the summer of 1967. Parts of the screenplay bear little relation to the novel, although the portion in which a woman seduces a North Vietnamese communist general and sets him up to be kidnapped by Americans is from the book.
Plot
Reporter George Beckworth attends a Special Forces briefing about the reasons for American military involvement in the Vietnam War. When Beckworth doubts the value of U.S. intervention, Green Beret Colonel Mike Kirby asks him if he has ever been to Vietnam, which influences him to report on events there.
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| author | James Lee Barrett |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Vietnam |
| director | John Wayne Mervyn LeRoy Ray Kellogg |
| editor | Otho Lovering |
| events | Cold War |
| genre | adventure |
| keywords | ac-47 act barbed wire brief da nang fashion model force fulton surface-to-air recovery system green beret honey trap honey trapping kill massive attack mortar north vietnam north vietnamese army open puff the magic dragon ruthless killer search secret mission skyhook south vietnam special forces top secret viet cong vietnam war village chief wound |
| musicBy | Miklós Rózsa |
| producer | Michael Wayne |
| productionCompany | Batjac Productions |
| publisher | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
| recordedAt | Georgia |
| theme | propaganda war |