The Green Berets

Starring: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, et al.

A cynical newsman follows a Green Beret colonel on missions to hold a hill and kidnap a Viet Cong general.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 085391158608
• Release Date: January 2007
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Publisher: WarnerBrothers
• Directors: John Wayne, Ray Kellogg
• Starring: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Raymond St. Jacques, Bruce Cabot, Jack Soo, George Takei, Patrick Wayne, Luke Askew
• Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Multiple Formats; Closed-captioned; Color; Dubbed; NTSC; Subtitled; Widescreen
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

"Provo's Privy", it sings.

Surprisingly, I was in Vietnam at the time the movie was made. The only thing I can say about any reality is that I was not in or near any green-bereted people. I was in armed reconnaissance, and as you suspected, the environment was different. We never went anywhere without an M-60, which was not present in the movie. I was the RTO who carried a radio and extra ammunition for the M-60. People who watched out for me at night carried an M-79. For that matter, they did not even have a P-38 on their tag chain. The people in the tiger suits were the LRRP's. Once in a while, I got to go out with them. I could fill a book with the inconsistencies. Now, putting the differences aside for this movie, it appears consistent with the larger-than-life John Wayne legend style. This is the style we came to know and love about his movies for over 30 years. And more was to come after this. I find it interesting that he chooses pretty much the same crew of actors to work with whether he is making a cowboy movie, a war movie, or a comedy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a demonstration of Green Beret capabilities. The audience appears to be mostly Susie-homemaker and Father Knows Best. A conspicuous heckler, George Beckworth (David Janssen of "The Fugitive" fame) in the audience is a reporter and a skeptic of the war. He gets hauled around Da Nang and thereabouts until, through sharing trials and tribulations with the Green Berets comes to realize that they may not have been exaggerating. We are also hauled around with no punches pulled.