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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

Rick Natkin, Sidney J. Furie

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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 | Comment
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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
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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
DrBenway
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