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The Boys in Company C (1978)
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This war drama (which prefigures the later "Full Metal Jacket") follows the lives of five... See full summary » Director:Sidney J. Furie |
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Tyrone Washington
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Billy Ray Pike
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James Canning | ... |
Alvin Foster
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Vinnie Fazio
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Dave Bisbee
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Captain Collins
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Lieutenant Archer
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Noble Willingham | ... |
Sergeant Curry
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Sergeant Loyce
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Santos Morales | ... |
Sergeant Aquilla
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Drew Michaels | ... |
Colonel Metcalfe
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Karen Hilger | ... |
Betsy
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Peggy O'Neal | ... |
Nancy Bisbee
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Claude Wilson | ... |
Roy Foster
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Chuck Doherty | ... |
George Pike
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This war drama (which prefigures the later "Full Metal Jacket") follows the lives of five young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp in 1967 through a tour in Vietnam in 1968 that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they can defeat a rival soccer team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. But as they might have predicted, nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems. Written by Tom Hockersmith <teh@aristotle.net>
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To keep their sanity in an insane war, they had to be crazy.Parents Guide:
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(Denmark) See more »Also Known As:
Os Rapazes da Companhia C See more »Filming Locations:
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The original script was written by Rick Natkin for a film class at Yale University in 1973. See more »Goofs
Continuity: When Washington calls in the fake incident report from OP 4 and is getting ready to shoot the Captain with the .50 cal, Lt. Archer uses his M-16 to push the barrel of the .50 up in the air. In the shots looking at Lt. Archer, there is no magazine in the M-16, but, when his back is to the camera, there is a magazine in place. See more »
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