Review of Go Tell the Spartans (1978) by Zach E — 01 Aug 2008
Best film ever made on the Vietnam war with an excellent performance by Burt Lancaster. Go Tell the Spartans is undeservedly obscure and it has been overshadowed by more popular movies which came out around the same time.
The film is very realist in its depiction of events. While not picking sides or playing politics, the movie shows the circularity of the war and how it was fought entirely the wrong way.
It is titled after the epitaph following the Battle of Thermopylae. "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,.
That here obedient to their laws we lie.".
This review of Go Tell the Spartans (1978) was written by Zach E on 01 Aug 2008.
Go Tell the Spartans has generally received positive reviews.
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