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The Duke is about to shoot some Gooks in the 'Nam on Sundance Channel.

That movie SUCKS.

One of his worst movies!

Agreed

Ham chunk still makes me blink a little hard at the end.

"You knew it could happen, didn't you, Ham Chunk"?

"But... ... I didn't want it to"...

Sun sets in the east in the final scene. Priceless.

You guys are a tough crowd!

I enjoy that movie. It starts by a good ass-chewing of a liberal press wienie, has some good old fashioned Cold War anti communist propaganda, gives us a glimpse of an A-camp outpost as the GB gather up the locals. Saw my first punji watching that as well as the nasty booby traps. Had a good hostage snatch and then the James Bond air retrieval. Puff the Magic Dragon laid waste to beaucoup VC.

It wasn't all bad!

The movie was widely panned by elite, effeminate anti-war pogues when it came out. I remember watching it probably in the early seventies as a kid, when the Nam was still going on. It wasn't bad. It was marred by trying to make up for all the anti-war propaganda by becoming pro-war propaganda. The story took a backseat to politics. That always kills a show. All in all, not bad but not good either. Just a mediocre effort, but God bless John Wayne for taking on the commies.

(And still better than anything Tom Cruise ever did)

Top 50 song of all time.

I remember seeing it as a kid (8 yo?). Seem like there was a nude scene with the Asian gal in it. The scene where Peterson got impaled shook me up.

My cousin and his best fiend went to Vietnam on purpose because of that movie, had to join the Marines to do it. They saw combat, one got wounded but healed up OK and they are both proud of their service. They married each other’s sisters when they got back and formed a sort of superfamily, both working as linemen.

But when their own sons went in the service they insisted it was gonna be something other than infantry.

The one scene where you can see the holes for the speaker in the “M-16”.......truly it was a Mattel

I'm with you. I liked it.

Two niner savoy...

My favorite part was when Puff showed up.

Cactus Pryer(?) an Austin native had a part.

Aldo Ray (Sgt. Muldoon) was the real deal having served as a UDT (Frogman) in WW2 and politically a self described, "Arch conservative/Right Winger".

The book was better.