| The Boys in Company C | |
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| Directed by | Sidney J. Furie |
| Produced by | Andre Morgan |
| Written by | Sidney J. Furie Rick Natkin |
| Starring | Stan
Shaw Andrew Stevens R. Lee Ermey James Whitmore Jr Scott Hylands Michael Lembeck |
| Cinematography | Godfrey A. Godar |
| Editing by | Frank J. Urioste |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1978 |
| Running time | 125 min. |
| Country |  Hong Kong / U.S. |
| Language | English |
The Boys in Company C, directed by Sidney J. Furie; starring Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens (in his Golden Globe-nominated performance), Craig Wasson, Santos Morales and Michael Lembeck was a 1978 film about United States Marines in the Vietnam War. It was among the first Vietnam War films to appear after the Vietnam Era, and was an early role for R. Lee Ermey of Full Metal Jacket fame. It was a Golden Harvest production. The movie was filmed in the Philippines.
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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. Things quickly devolve 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 purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. However, as they might have known, nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems. [1]
nomination Golden Globe:Best Motion Picture Acting Debut – Male, Andrew Stevens (1979)
This film has been issued numerous times on video through the decades since the film's release, first in-house via Columbia Pictures, and later through other companies as certain ancillary rights changed hands (it ended up becoming part of the library of ITC Entertainment). Today, although Columbia Pictures still holds the copyright, ITC successor ITV Global Entertainment Ltd. has the major rights, with theatrical distribution by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The current home video/DVD release is by Hen's Tooth under license from ITV.
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