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The Green Berets [Region 2] | ![The Green Berets [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51y4diaZ2ZL._SL500_.jpg) | Directors: John Wayne, Mervyn LeRoy, Ray Kellogg
Actors: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Raymond St. Jacques
Category: DVD
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Rating:  132 reviews
Sales Rank: 179774
Format: NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 142 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5024165785768
ASIN: B00004CY4M
Theatrical Release Date: August 30, 1968
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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 the film 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
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 The Duke, The Man, The Patriot January 31, 2010
William Leon Lindsey (Oklahoma, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
John Wayne, to me, is the consummate actor for the roles he played in his long career in movies. I have been a fan of his and his work since I was a little dude. As an adult I continue to collect his work and enjoy them over and over. I spent 30 years in the Army which started in 1968 and his character and the plot of the movie is very believable and true to the real life war in Vietnam. The rhetoric, clothing, operations and missions and all else about the movie are within acceptable tolerances for this story. The booby traps, the visciousness of the Viet Cong against their own people and the missions are true to life. This movie will be represents actual places, people and events in our military history that should help Americans honor the fewer and fewer Vietnam veterans in our great nation who fought a war that wasn't fought to be won (in my own opinion). A lot of them weren't honored when they came home, they were branded as "baby killers" and the like which caused untold mental agony and distress. God bless 'em (us).
As a side note, his westerns are entertaining and action filled. One of the reasons I enjoy them so much is the screen writer he used for so many years, especially his westerns, James Edward Grant. He is the one who put the Duke's famous phrases onto the screen; phrases like, "a man's got to do what a man's got to do", and "Comfortable?!?! I've been called a lot of things in my life, but comfortable was not one of them." The legend lives on in his movies, as does each of the actors that worked with him for all those decades. He is my favorite western star. The vendor was very particular in the packaging and prompt in getting the DVD out to me. My thanks and kudoes to you and your staff for their attention to detail and professionalism. I'll be back for more.
 Non-anamorphic and a flipper...NO!!!! January 22, 2010
Icepick (Castroville, CA USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The box says it's enhanced for widescreen TVs--and it isn't. That should mean 16x9--it doesn't. It's letterboxed. It's just a repackaging (yellow band across top) of the original primitive flipper disk.
 The critics hated it, but the people liked it January 22, 2010
M. Shepherd
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The critics almost all hated this movie, but it did well at the box office, the people liked it. John Wayne said "They are
reviewing my politics, not my movie" and he was right. But I think it goes farther than that. Movie critics are largely out
of touch with the people who actually go to see movies. It`s pretty much always been that way and still is today. Back in the
20s and 30s the critics hated Laurel & Hardy films, but the people loved them. And little has changed today. I always figure
if the critics don`t like a movie it might be worth watching. It`s not always the case, some films are just so bad that both
the critics and the people think they stink.
But that`s not the case with this film. It`s actually pretty good. Not great, or a classic, but a pretty good basic war hero
type movie that had good acting and directing. The plot and story were a little old and worn even back then. It`s your basic
WWII war movie transported into the 1960s southeast asia.
People need heroes, both real and fictional. John Wayne was a master at providing the public with larger than life fictional
characters. These characters often have little to do with reality, but movies rarely have much to do with reality either.
If you like larger than life hero movies, or war movies, you will enjoy this film.
Great January 17, 2010
Brandi-ann B. Pagano
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although this came after the holidays, it was still received during the estimated delivery window.
A Vietnam movie for the whole family November 2, 2009
Desert Rose (Florence, AZ)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Something for everybody, not too bloody & the language not very offensive.
This is a DVD that you turn over & play both sides, which wasn't very well marked. We thought there was something wrong with it when Side 1 stopped quite unexpectidly. Good movie though, you can't beat John Wayne!
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