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The Odd Angry Shot
In Vietnam, the name of the game is survival.
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
Cast
- Graham Kennedy as Harry
- John Hargreaves as Bung
- John Jarratt as Bill
- Bryan Brown as Rogers
- Graeme Blundell as Dawson
- Richard Moir as Medic
- Peter Drouyn as Sergeant Johnson
- Ian Gilmour as Scott
- Graham Rouse as The Cook
- Tony Barry as Black Ronnie
- John Allen as Lieut. Golonka
- Brandon Burke as Isaacs
Details
- Director
- Tom Jeffrey
- Released
- March 1, 1979
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- War, Action, Comedy
- Studio
- New South Wales Film Corp., Australian Film Commission and Samson Productions Pty. Ltd.
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.1 / 10 from 29 votes
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