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1978 film directed by Ted Post

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Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film directed by Ted Post and starring Burt Lancaster.

The film is based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa^[1] about U.S. Army military advisors during the early part of the Vietnam War in 1964, when Ford was a correspondent in Vietnam for The Nation.

Plot

In 1964, infantry Major Asa Barker, a seasoned but weary veteran of World War II and Korean War, is given command of a poorly manned US Army advisor outpost overlooking three villages in South Vietnam.

He is ordered to reoccupy a nearby deserted hamlet named Muc Wa on the Da Nang-to-Phnom Penh highway - which a decade before had been the scene of a massacre of French soldiers during the First Indochina War. ^[2]

Barker and his exec