Worst
war
movie
ever.
That from someone who was airborne and detached to SF, will watch a Wayne (Morrison) movie whenever the chance comes, thinks the original Stagecoach is the greatest western ever, and whose mother claimed to have met him as high school students in Glendale (despite being ten years his junior...she did know Bob Wian so maybe I misheard).
Worst WWII propaganda film ever shot 20 years after the fact & in another country altogether.
Worst attempt at a Cowboys and Indians movie ever set in Indochina.
On the other hand, with kudos to Wayne, at the time only that film and Patton even attempted to portray us as the good guys during our time in Vietnam.
I agree that the movie was, well, horribly tacky in many ways, but it still got some good points across, and partly because of what John Wayne did with the script he worked with. Still, it did portray our guys as the good guys, and that deserves credit.