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The Boys in Company C (1977)

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Cowritten by director Sidney J. Furie, The Boys in Company C charts the fortunes of five young Marine recruits. Led by Stan Shaw, the quintet is shipped off to Vietnam. The film makes no bones about the demoralizing effect the war has on its participants, nor the pigheadedness of the military higher-ups who think only in terms of body counts and photo ops. Of the five recruits, the most memorable are Michael Lembeck as Vinnie Fazio, the resident wiseguy (the same type of role played by Lembeck's

R, 2 hr. 7 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure

Directed By: Sidney J. Furie

Written By: Rick Natkin, Sidney J. Furie

Cast

Stan Shaw
Tyrone Washington
Andrew Stevens
Billy Ray Pike
Jim Canning
Alvin Foster
Michael Lembeck
Vinnie Fazio
Craig Wasson
Dave Bisbee
Scott Hylands
Capt. Collins
James Whitmore Jr.
Lieutenant Archer
Noble Willingham
Sgt. Curry
R. Lee Ermey
Sgt. Loyce
Santos Morales
Sgt. Aquilla
Drew Michaels
Capt. Metcalfe
Karen Hilger
Betsy
Peggy O'Neal
Nancy Bisbee
Vic Diaz
Colonel Trang
Logan Clarke
Bortz
Bob Mallett
Hank
Frederick Matthews
Corporal Spaulding
Helen McNeely
Head Nurse
Ken Metcalfe
Major Royal
Claude Wilson
Roy Foster
Joe Mari Avellana
Colonel Dong
Rick Natkin
Chuck Waters
Micha�l Cohen
General Sloan

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Furie's film about the combat experience of five soldiers is one of the first movies about thr Vietnam War

April 12, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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One of the first films produced about the American war in Vietnam. I remember it making headlines in 1978, not due to it's merits but to it's shortcomings. Audiences were staying away in droves because it was centered around a very unpopular war that had only recently ended. Also, Vietnam veterans were complaining

January 22, 2009

Randy Tippy

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"Boys" follows five young men from their intensive boot camp training and through 1968 Vietnam among inept leaders and corruption of South-Vietnamese allies.The film belongs to the first wave of worthy Vietnam dramas trying to come to terms with America's outcome of the war and is a preamble to Kubrick's Full

December 6, 2008

El Hombre Invisible

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