Word: greens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Viet Nam is a French-made quasi documentary implacably opposed to the war in Southeast Asia. Green Berets is a piece of Hollywood celluloid fiction that clearly assumes the righteousness of the U.S. cause. Despite their divergent views, the two movies resemble each other far more than their makers would care to admit. Both preach to the converted; both assume that moral indignation is sufficient material for a scenario. And both leave the viewer with the conclusion that in a war movie, as in a war, the first casualty is usually common sense...
...movie claims, Americans dropped more bombs on Viet Nam than they did on Germany during all of World War II. In that case, one more bomb may not matter. Its name is The Green Berets, based on Robin Moore's bestseller. To Producer, Co-Director and Star John Wayne, the war is primer-simple. There's them and there's us. Us are the Green Beret crack troops led by Wayne with a chestful of fruit salad and a no-nonsense approach to the dovish American press, personified by David Janssen. During the beating...
Long after nightfall, it arrived in Washington. Along the lamplit streets, past a luminescence of sad and silent faces, the cavalcade wound through the federal city and across the Potomac, where in a green grove up the hill in Arlington, John Kennedy's grave looks out over the city and the river. The moon, the slender candles, the eternal flame at John's memorial?47 feet away and the floodlights laved Robert Kennedy's resting place beneath a magnolia tree. It was 11 o'clock, the first nighttime burial at Arlington in memory. There was no playing of taps...
LAURENCE H. GREEN...
Also: Henry M. Fields: Wayne M. Flicker; Frederick J. Fox; Robert Freedman; Kenneth B. Krisof; Peter J. Gabel; Harold N. Gabow; Daniel S. Gilbarg; Joseph W. Glannon; J. Stephen Golden; Richard H. Gordon; Laurence H. Green; Jeffrey C. Hamm; Richard P. Harmel, Jr.; Philip Harrison; Robert C. Hart; Charles S. Henry; Robert S. Hoffman; Richard S. Hopkins...