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John Wayne (Actor, Director), David Janssen (Actor) Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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  • Actors: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Raymond St Jacques
  • Directors: John Wayne, Ray Kellogg
  • Producers: Michael Wayne
  • Format: PAL, Subtitled
  • Subtitles: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Greek
  • Dubbed: Spanish, French, German
  • Region: All Regions (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Jan. 2010
  • Run Time: 136 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (89 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B002TXB37K
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John Wayne went against the tide of public opinion to both direct and star in a war epic that seeks to justify America's involvement in Vietnam. A commander (Wayne) is sent onto the battlefield to lead a regiment on a mission to kidnap a Vietcong general. As events unfold, a pacifist journalist (David Janssen) covering the sorti is gradually persuaded to accept the justness of the war.

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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 Green Berets 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 --This text refers to the DVD edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars'A CLASSIC 60'S WAR-MOVIE'
By rbmusicman/and/movie-fan' TOP 50 REVIEWER on 12 Sept. 2014
Format: Blu-ray
Screen-legend' 'JOHN WAYNE' (Colonel Mike Kirby) leads the way in the first 'Vietnam-War' movie which displays much of the horror this war offered.
Telling the story of a small U.S. force trying to hold a military outpost in Viet-Cong territory against the ''odds''
This is a decent effort which includes some impressive ( for it's time ) battle scenes...........a must for 'JOHN WAYNE' fans.
The picture and Sound Quality is acceptable.
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4.0 out of 5 starsPanned by Critics,but its JOHN WAYNE!!
By Malcolm McDonald on 1 Dec. 2013
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
This was panned by critics in its day,and ok,its not brilliant and is very light on the action side to what we got to see in the likes of Platoon and FULL Metal Jacket,but this was made in the 60s where the censors were heavy,so theres no swearing and basically blokes tanned up to look like the enemy,who we know are going to count to 10 and get up again,but its really,OK!The cast isnt great with the exception of Wayne and Brian Hutton,but it runs to 2 and a half hours and has its moments.Sulu,george Takei making a rare movie appearance so is 3 time TARZAN Mike Henry.The ending is memorable and heartbreaking.Its worth a four star for trying thats for sure....
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3.0 out of 5 stars"Out here, due process is a bullet."
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 17 July 2013
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
The controversy that still hangs over the less than realistic The Green Berets tends to overshadow the fact that it was one of the Duke's biggest box-office hits in its day despite not being particularly good on its own terms even if you're sympathetic to its political agenda. Curiously some of the most strenuous opposition to the film being made in the first place came from the US government and army, who thought Wayne was remarkably ill-informed and found the script simplistic, naïve and not reflecting the kind of war they were really fighting and were worried - not without reason - that it could do more harm than good. It certainly makes its case bluntly but a little more subtly than Sam Fuller's China Gate [Blu-ray] [1957] [US Import], which shares quite a few similarities, and its sins are often more ones of omission than dishonesty: the Vietcong atrocities it showcases were real enough (American atrocities are given the nod with the offscreen torture of a prisoner excused with a variation on "Well he started it"), but its image of a war fought by mostly white, almost entirely middle-aged men supporting an incorruptible democratically elected government is pure Hollywood.

If you can separate the politics from the film, what you get is an expensively staged WW2-style war movie in three acts: back home putting the ladies and gentlemen of the press right about what's really going on in Vietnam, a lengthy section in a besieged outpost that harkens back to the wild west with added punji sticks, and a men on a mission finale straight out of China Gate.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA terrific role that was truly scripted for John Wayne and well executed
By S. F. husseiny on 4 Jun. 2012
Format: DVD
The Green Berets. John Wayne stars in and co-directs this red-white-and-blue depiction of America's Vietnam effort. Wayne wrote to President Lyndon Johnson to request military assistance for the film - and got more than enough firepower to create and impressive spectacle. Its soldiers fit the tried and true mould of earlier Wayne war classics like Back To Bataan and Sands of Iwo Jima. Their heroics are timeless.
WHAT CAN I SAY?
Probably the only major motion picture to actively support the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam conflict,
They had to be the toughest fighting force on earth - and the men who led them had to be just a little bit tougher!
John Wayne leads an elite team of Green Berets on a search-and-destroy mission to capture a leading NVA general.
Well acted action film
The Green Berets also deserves credit for being one of the only movie during Vietnam depicting Vietnam.?
you have to admire Wayne's courage in going through with this project knowing how unpopular his beliefs were to many people..
you can not fault him one bit for doing what he believed in.
as he is saying to all movie critics "Get off your horse and drink your milk " .
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3.0 out of 5 starsREGION 1 DISC
By ciaran moore on 31 Aug. 2009
Format: DVD
Just to let anyone who has a multi-region dvd player know, the region 1 disc comes with a vintage featurette "the moviemakers"(7mins) and a John Wayne war trailer gallery(19mins).
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3.0 out of 5 starsThe greatest war movie ever made...
By Ronald Boyd on 14 Feb. 2011
Format: Blu-ray
Heh, only kidding.

But what is it, this film?

The critics hated it, no doubt in great part due to John Wayne's politics (as you probably are aware, the Big Man didn't much like communists). So I think it's not unfair to say their dislike of the big fella's right-wing views clouded their judgement, but only to an extent.

It's not a great film. What it is, is a perfect example of the standard fare Duke was putting in the picure houses by the mid-to-late sixties (the exceptions being the wonderful True Grit and the top drawer El Dorado). Think of this film as 'Hellfighters', 'cept the team are in the army this time (most of the main cast of Hellighters are in The Green Berets).

It's not great, it's not terrible, it's pretty much made for John Wayne fans (of whom there are legion, and - unlike some - they don't obsess over trivial mistakes Duke may make when he's pretending to be a soldier, they just want to see Duke beat the baddies).

So if you're looking for biting, sad anti-war fare like Platoon or Full Metal Jacket, this isn't for you.

On the other hand, if you want an hour or two's entertainment watching arguably the most recognizable film star ever going through his schtick, then you'll like this.

Oh, and the blu-ray transfer is excellent in most places.

PS. When is The Quiet Man getting it's blu-ray day? Or The Cavalry Trilogy? We want to know!!!
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