The Anderson Platoon
Directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer
Written by Pierre Schoendoerffer
1967/France
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[box] Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. — Robert McNamara[/box]
A veteran of the French Indochina War imbeds himself with an American platoon in the long war’s next phase. He captures the way the GIs try and fail to create a little piece of home on the frontlines. But war is indeed hell. Narrated by Stuart Whitman.
This brought back memories of the family (mostly me and my Dad) arguing about the War at the dinner table while the TV blasted graphic images of combat. The U.S. government would never allow those images again.
What we saw every night on TV during the Vietnam War.
