The Boys in Company C

Cast

Stan Shaw
as Tyrone Washington

Andrew Stevens
as Billy Ray Pike

Jim Canning
as Alvin Foster

James Canning
as Alvin Foster

Michael Lembeck
as Vinnie Fazio

Craig Wasson
as Dave Bisbee

Scott Hylands
as Capt. Collins

James Whitmore Jr.
as Lt. Archer

Noble Willingham
as Sgt. Curry

R. Lee Ermey
as Sgt. Loyce

Santos Morales
as Sgt. Aquilla

Drew Michaels
as Capt. Metcalfe

Karen Hilger
as Betsy

Peggy O'Neal
as Nancy Bisbee

Claude Wilson
as Roy Foster

Vic Diaz
as Colonel Trang

Chuck Doherty
as George Pike

Stan Johns
as Receiving Sergeant

Don Gordon Bell
as Junior DI

Bob Mallett
as Hank

Parris Hicks
as Oates

Frederick Matthews
as Corporal Spaulding

Logan Clarke
as Bortz

Ray Wagner
as Sutton

Duane Mercier
as War Games Lieutenant

Joe Mari Avellana
as Colonel Dong

Noel Kramer
as Colonel Beuford

Fred Smithson
as Brig Lieutenant

Eazy Black
as Short Arm Inspection Sergeant

Rick Natkin
as Soldier at Long Khe

Helen McNeely
as Head Nurse

Chuck Waters
as Escort Officer

Ken Metcalfe
as Major Royal

Victor Pinzon
as A.F.R. Announcer

Michaël Cohen
as General Sloan

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Critic Reviews for The Boys in Company C

Audience Reviews for The Boys in Company C

• May 01, 2010

  In some ways I liked Full Metal Jacket better & in some ways I liked this movie better
  Brody M Super Reviewer
• Oct 08, 2009

  When this was first recommended to me I had never heard of it, which is odd because I?ve always been a fan of movies about Vietnam. In many ways this is a forgotten film and I think that might be because The Deer Hunter came out the same year and eclipsed it. Really this suffers in comparison to a lot of Vietnam movies; it?s not as thoughtful as The Deer Hunter, as intense as Apocalypse Now, as authentic as Platoon, or as smart as Full Metal Jacket, but view on its own it has its merits. Of all the films I just mentioned, Full Metal Jacket is probably the one it has the closest kinship to, as it has a similar format of showing G.I.s as they are trained and follows them into the battlefield. It even has R. Lee Ermey in a small role as a drill sergent (though he?s not anywhere near as good as he was in the Kubrick film). Unlike Full Metal Jacket this lacks a consistent tone, I think it struggles to decide whether it wants to be a satire or a straightforward war film, if it?s trying to be the later it probably doesn?t work to great, if it?s trying to be the former it works better but it?s not as good as other anti-war films of the era like M*A*S*H or Catch-22. I didn?t really find the characters overly interesting and the story is a pretty standard ?tour of duty? type thing. I felt like the movie was really treading water for most of its runtime, but then came the film?s climactic propaganda soccer game. At first this scene seemed really silly, but it eventually developed into a pretty smart allegory for the war itself, and that in many ways redeemed the film for me.
  MJS M Super Reviewer
• Jan 22, 2009

  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 that it was unflattering and unrealistic. I'd group it with other films of the era like <i>The Green Berets</i> or maybe <i>Go Tell the Spartans</i> that are courageous but not completely honest. A group of films produced by activists, not soldiers, that are more about politics than actual events.
  Randy T Super Reviewer
• Dec 06, 2008

  "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 Metal Jacket, to include the great R. Lee Ermey doing what he does best. Choppy directing still turns out some very fine performances by very good actors. <a href="http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/?action=view¤t=boysincompanyc.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/boysincompanyc.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
  El Hombre I Super Reviewer

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