

They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare,
the soldiers of the Special Forces - and the focus of Hollywood's first
feature film about the Vietnam War: The Green Berets.
John Wayne stars in and co-directs this red-white-and-blue depiction of America's
Vietnam effort, based on Robin Moore's novel. Wayne wrote to President Lyndon
Johnson to request military assistance for the film - and got more than enough
firepower to create an impressive spectacle.
Its solders fit the tried-and-true mold of earlier Wayne war classics like
Back to Battan and Sands of Iwo Jima. Their heroics are timeless.