--- title: 'Go Tell the Spartans (1978)' type: 'film' director: 'Ted Post' released: '1978-06-14' runtime_minutes: 114 genres: - 'Drama' - 'War' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/go-tell-the-spartans-1978' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077617/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Go Tell the Spartans (1978) 1978 · 114 min · Drama, War · United States ## Synopsis Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film directed by Ted Post, from a screenplay by Wendell Mayes, and starring Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Marc Singer and Jonathan Goldsmith. The film is based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ted Post](https://cinepixo.com/people/ted-post) - **Screenplay:** [Wendell Mayes](https://cinepixo.com/people/wendell-mayes) - **Original Music Composer:** [Dick Halligan](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-halligan) - **Director of Photography:** [Harry Stradling](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-stradling-2) ## Cast - [Burt Lancaster](https://cinepixo.com/people/burt-lancaster) as Major Asa Barker - [David Clennon](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-clennon) as Lieutenant Finley Wattsberg - [Dolph Sweet](https://cinepixo.com/people/dolph-sweet) as General Harnitz - [James Hong](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-hong) as Private 'Old Man' - [Clyde Kusatsu](https://cinepixo.com/people/clyde-kusatsu) as Colonel 'Lard Ass' Minh - [Craig Wasson](https://cinepixo.com/people/craig-wasson) as Corporal Courcey - [John Megna](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-megna) as Corporal Ackley - [Denice Kumagai](https://cinepixo.com/people/denice-kumagai) as Butterfly - [Marc Singer](https://cinepixo.com/people/marc-singer) as Captain Olivetti ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/go-tell-the-spartans-1978 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1645944); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.