"The book was adapted into a 1968 film of the same name starring John Wayne. Production included extensive cooperation from the U.S. Army, which insisted that Moore not be involved with the film. To please the Pentagon, Wayne bought Moore out for $35,000 and 5% of undefined profits of the film. The movie version is noted for being one of the few films about Vietnam actually produced during the Vietnam War. It is set in South Vietnam but was mostly filmed in and around Fort Benning. The Green Berets (book) The Green Berets is a book () written by Robin"
"into other genres as well, including several films dealing with the Second World War (notably ""The Longest Day"" and ""In Harm's Way)"". Wayne made some of his most prominent films during this period, including John Ford's ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962) with James Stewart. Wayne's political views came under harsh attack from film critics with the release of ""The Green Berets"" (1968), which Wayne produced and co-directed as well as starred in. The following year, however, he would be praised by critics for his performance in ""True Grit"", which would earn him an Academy Award for Best Actor."
"""The ideal situation would be three films every two years."" He formed his own company, Crockett Productions, and bought two original scripts that were not made: ""Soldares"", by Edwin Gottlieb, about the search for Pancho Villa; and ""Frogman, South Pacific"", by William Zeck. His best-known work of the 1960s was his portrayal of Sergeant Muldoon, alongside John Wayne, in ""The Green Berets"" (1968). Ray starred in ""Kill a Dragon"" shot in Hong Kong in 1966, and ""Suicide Commando"" shot in Rome and Spain in 1968. He also made two television pilots in the 1960s; neither was picked up. As the"
"book, Moore continued to enjoy the respect of the Special Forces community. The Green Berets is a 1968 film based on Moore's 1965 book. Parts of the screenplay bear little relation to the novel, although the portion in which a woman seduces a Vietnamese communist leader and sets him up to be kidnapped by Americans is from the book. John Wayne requested and obtained full military co-operation and materiel from President Johnson. To please the Pentagon, who were attempting to prosecute Robin Moore for revealing classified information, Wayne bought Moore out for $35,000 and 5 percent of undefined profits of"
"the novel ""The Green Berets,"" which became a 1968 movie, ""The Green Berets,"" featuring John Wayne, helped Sadler with lyrics and with getting a recording contract with RCA Victor Records. ""The Ballad of the Green Berets"" arranged as a choral version by Ken Darby was the title song of the movie. Moore also wrote an introduction to Sadler's autobiography, ""I'm A Lucky One,"" which he dictated to Tom Mahoney and was published by Macmillan Company in 1967. ""The Ballad of the Green Berets"" was released by RCA Victor Records in January 1966, and became a fast-selling single, holding No. 1"
"Green Eyes (1918 film) Green Eyes is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Roy William Neill and written by Ella Stuart Carson, John Lynch and R. Cecil Smith. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Jack Holt, Emory Johnson, Doris May, Robert McKim, and Clyde Benson. The film was released on August 11, 1918, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives. As described in a film magazine, hardly had Pearson Hunter (Holt) returned to the south with his young bride Shirley (Dalton) than he flew into a jealous rage because his wife knew one of"
"Green Eyes (1977 film) Green Eyes is a 1977 American television film directed by John Erman and written by Eugene Logan and David Seltzer. It is a ""touching and moving story"" about an Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck (Paul Winfield) who went through a soul searching journey. The film was produced by Lorimar Productions and broadcast on ABC. The film won a Peabody Award and a Humanitas Prize in 1977. Lloyd Dubeck (Paul Winfield), ""a Vietnam veteran wounded both physically and psychically. Released from a VA hospital, walking with a cane, he can’t find wor and can’t seem to fit in."
"gentlemen"" and, in Reel 4, the intertitle ""I'se the white nigger you kicked in the dirt"". Green Eyes (1918 film) Green Eyes is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Roy William Neill and written by Ella Stuart Carson, John Lynch and R. Cecil Smith. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Jack Holt, Emory Johnson, Doris May, Robert McKim, and Clyde Benson. The film was released on August 11, 1918, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives. As described in a film magazine, hardly had Pearson Hunter (Holt) returned to the south with his young"
"(1949), ""The Quiet Man"" (1952), ""The Wings of Eagles"" (1957), and ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962) with James Stewart. The first movie in which he called someone ""Pilgrim,"" Ford's ""The Searchers"" (1956), is often considered to contain Wayne's finest and most complex performance. Wayne was nominated as the producer of Best Picture for ""The Alamo"" (1960), one of two films he directed. The other was ""The Green Berets"" (1968), the only major film made during the Vietnam War in support of the war. During the filming of ""The Green Berets"", the Degar or Montagnard people of Vietnam's Central"
"One of the first major films based on the Vietnam War was John Wayne's pro-war film, ""The Green Berets"" (1968). Further cinematic representations were released during the 1970s and 1980s, including Michael Cimino's ""The Deer Hunter"" (1978), Francis Ford Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979), Oliver Stone's ""Platoon"" (1986) – based on his service in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War, Stanley Kubrick's ""Full Metal Jacket"" (1987), ""Hamburger Hill"" (1987), ""Born on the Fourth of July"" (1989), and ""Casualties of War"" (1989). Later films would include ""We Were Soldiers"" (2002) and ""Rescue Dawn"" (2007). The war also influenced a generation of"
"The Green Helmet The Green Helmet is a 1961 British film starring Bill Travers, Ed Begley and Sid James. The film is centred on a British motor racing team. It is based on a novel by Australian author Jon Cleary. Cleary wrote the original novel in the 1950s. He had written a book about Australian politics, ""The Mayor's Nest"", but his English publisher was worried it would not appeal to an international audience, and suggested a book on motor racing. Cleary and his wife had lived in Italy for a year and became familiar with the motor races there. He"
"causes, including rallying support for the Vietnam War by producing, codirecting, and starring in the financially successful, critically panned ""The Green Berets"" (1968). Due to his status as the highest profile Republican star in Hollywood, wealthy Texas Republican Party backers asked Wayne to run for national office in 1968, as had his friend and fellow actor Senator George Murphy. He declined, joking that he did not believe the public would seriously consider an actor in the White House. Instead, he supported his friend Ronald Reagan's runs for Governor of California in 1966 and 1970. He was asked to be the"
"Vietnam, and his subsequent decision to produce a film about the Army special forces deployed there as a tribute to them. Wayne was a steadfast supporter of American involvement in the war in Vietnam. He co-directed the film, and turned down the ""Major Reisman"" role in ""The Dirty Dozen"" to do so. Although ""The Green Berets"" portrays the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army as sadistic tyrants, it also depicts them as a capable and highly motivated enemy. The film shows the war as one with no front lines, meaning that the enemy can show up and attack at almost any"
"The Green Hornet (serial) The Green Hornet is a 1940 black-and-white 13 chapter movie serial from Universal Pictures, produced by Henry MacRae, directed by Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor, starring Gordon Jones, Wade Boteler, Keye Luke, and Anne Nagel. The serial is based on ""The Green Hornet"" radio series by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. Britt Reid, publisher of the ""The Sentinel"" newspaper, is secretly the vigilante crime fighter The Green Hornet. He and his Korean valet Kato investigate and expose several seemingly separate criminal rackets. This leads them into continued conflict with ""the Chief,"" the mastermind behind the"
"the title, ""The Green Berets"", for a screenplay about the training of an SF Team and their deployment in Southeast Asia, but dropped the idea, because of the U.S. Army's many conditions and the U.S. public's dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War. Producer David L. Wolper then bought the rights to ""The Green Berets"", and dropped the idea for reasons like Columbia Pictures. A screenplay was written by George Goodman who had served with the Special Forces in the 1950s as a military intelligence officer and had written a 1961 article about the Special Forces called ""The Unconventional Warriors"" in Esquire"
"seen. He was announced for the lead in ""A Guide for the Married Man"" but when the script changed he ended up asking to be released from it. In November 1966 Hutton signed a non-exclusive two-year deal with 20th Century Fox. However he did not appear in any Fox films. In July 1967 Hutton signed to appear in the John Wayne war drama, ""The Green Berets"", in which Hutton played a Special Forces sergeant in a mix of comedy and drama, with a memorable booby trap death scene. Also in 1968, Hutton appeared with John Wayne in ""Hellfighters"", playing the"
"and took Trung back to the US with him. Green Eyes (1977 film) Green Eyes is a 1977 American television film directed by John Erman and written by Eugene Logan and David Seltzer. It is a ""touching and moving story"" about an Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck (Paul Winfield) who went through a soul searching journey. The film was produced by Lorimar Productions and broadcast on ABC. The film won a Peabody Award and a Humanitas Prize in 1977. Lloyd Dubeck (Paul Winfield), ""a Vietnam veteran wounded both physically and psychically. Released from a VA hospital, walking with a cane, he"
"Green Mansions (film) Green Mansions is a 1959 American romantic adventure film directed by Mel Ferrer. It is based upon the 1904 novel ""Green Mansions"" by William Henry Hudson, the film starred Audrey Hepburn (who at the time was married to Ferrer) as Rima, a jungle girl who falls in love with a Venezuelan traveller played by Anthony Perkins. Also appearing in the film were Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakawa and Henry Silva. The score was by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Bronislau Kaper. The film was intended to be the first of several projects directed by Ferrer and starring his wife,"
"war series ""The Rat Patrol,"" later changed his name to Erik Braeden, becoming a soap opera star in ""The Young and the Restless."" Barry Sadler, as Sgt. Barry Sadler, had a top 40 hit record with ""Ballad of the Green Berets."" Dayton's Devils Dayton's Devils is a 1968 crime film starring Rory Calhoun and Leslie Nielsen. It marked the film debut of Lainie Kazan and Rigg Kennedy. Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) leads a group of crooks in a caper to steal $2,500,000 from an Air Force base. Dayton is the tough-guy military leader who recruits Mike (Rory Calhoun), ex-Nazi Max"
"Green Card (film) Green Card is a 1990 romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by Peter Weir and starring Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell. The screenplay focuses on an American woman who enters into a marriage of convenience with a Frenchman so he can obtain a green card and remain in the United States. Depardieu won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Brontë Parrish (Andie MacDowell), a horticulturalist and an environmentalist, enters into a"
"Green Fields (film) Green Fields (, trans. ""Grine Felder"") is a 1937 American comedy-drama Yiddish film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami. The film features child actor Herschel Bernardi, later to be an adult star on Broadway, in films and on television. Levy Yitzchok is an orphaned yeshiva student. Restless and distressed, he leaves his study hall in search of ""real Jews"" and wanders through the Belorussian countryside. He eventually settles in a small village, where the only Jews are two peasant families: Dovid-Noich, his wife Rochel, their two sons, Hersh Ber and Avraham Yankov, and daughter Tsine;"
"The Green Archer (1961 film) The Green Archer (German: Der grüne Bogenschütze) is a 1961 West German black and white crime film directed by Jürgen Roland and starring Gert Fröbe, Klausjürgen Wussow, Karin Dor and Eddi Arent. It is based on the 1923 novel ""The Green Archer"" by Edgar Wallace. It was released on Feb. 2, 1961. During a guided tour of Garre Castle, a man is killed by an arrow after sneaking away from the rest of the group. Shortly thereafter, Mr Howett and his adopted daughter, Valerie, move into Lady's Manor, next door to the castle. Valerie is"
"with Robert Shaw in ""A Man for All Seasons"" for the 1968 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Jones. The Comedians (1967 film) The Comedians is a 1967 American political drama film directed and produced by Peter Glenville, based on the novel of the same name by Graham Greene, who also wrote the screenplay. The stars were Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, and Alec Guinness. Paul Ford and Lillian Gish had supporting roles as a presidential candidate and wife, as did James Earl Jones as an island doctor. Set in Haiti"
"The Green Leaves of Summer ""The Green Leaves of Summer"" is a song by Paul Francis Webster, with music by Dimitri Tiomkin, written for the 1960 film ""The Alamo"". It was performed in the film's score by the vocal group The Brothers Four. In 1961, the song was nominated for an Academy Award; its parent soundtrack, for the film ""The Alamo"", was awarded a Golden Globe Award for ""Best Original Score"". In ""The Alamo"", the song is heard on the last night before the Battle of the Alamo. Davy Crockett (John Wayne), when asked what he is thinking, responds ""not"
"The Subject Was Roses (film) The Subject Was Roses is a 1968 American Metrocolor drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard. The screenplay by Frank D. Gilroy is based on his 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title. The film stars Patricia Neal, Martin Sheen and Jack Albertson. Albertson won an Academy Award for his performance. Returning to his Bronx home following World War II, Timmy Cleary (Martin Sheen) discovers his middle class parents have drifted apart and constantly quarrel at the least provocation. Once closer to his mother Nettie (Patricia Neal), the young veteran finds himself bonding with his"
"Reds (film) Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty. The picture centers on the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book ""Ten Days That Shook the World"". Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant and Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill. The supporting cast includes Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Gene Hackman, Ramon Bieri, Nicolas Coster, and M. Emmet Walsh. The film also features, as ""witnesses,"" interviews with the 98-year-old radical educator and"
"wrote it in Spain in twenty days at a chapter a day, and it became a best seller on its publication in 1957. Film rights were bought by MGM who hired Cleary to adapt his own novel. Although most of the movie was set in Italy, it was shot in Wales. Sid James was cast as an Australian. According to MGM records the film earned $375,000 in the US and $575,000 internationally, making a profit of $124,000. The Green Helmet The Green Helmet is a 1961 British film starring Bill Travers, Ed Begley and Sid James. The film is centred"
"Operation Dumbo Drop Operation Dumbo Drop is a 1995 American war comedy film directed by Simon Wincer that explores war, politics, and animal welfare. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Gene Quintano and Jim Kouf based on a true story by United States Army Major Jim Morris. The film stars Danny Glover and Ray Liotta as Green Berets during the Vietnam War in 1968, who attempt to transport an elephant through jungle terrain to a local South Vietnamese village which in turn helps American forces monitor Viet Cong activity. A joint collective effort to commit to the"
"Directed by Frank Capra, it blends live action and animation. Albert appears with Dr. Frank Baxter, who appears in several other Bell Telephone science specials. In 1965, the year that ""Green Acres"" premiered, Albert served as host/narrator for the telecast of a German-American made-for-television film version of ""The Nutcracker"", which was rerun several times and is now available as a Warners Archive DVD. The host sequences and the narration, all included on the DVD, were especially filmed for English-language telecasts of this short film (it was only an hour in length, and cut much from the Tchaikovsky ballet). In 1968,"
"Red Garters (film) Red Garters is a 1954 film starring Rosemary Clooney, Guy Mitchell, and Jack Carson. It is a musical spoof of Westerns. The director was George Marshall. The film was nominated an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer). It has been distributed on VHS, Laserdisc, and DVD. A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue, where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall, a citizen who got shot. Jason objects to the"
"The Detective (1968 film) The Detective is a 1968 color neo-noir crime film in Panavision directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aaron Rosenberg and starring Frank Sinatra, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp. Co-stars include Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William Windom and Robert Duvall, with a script by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Abby Mann. ""The Detective"" marked a move towards — and was billed as — a more ""adult"" approach to depicting the life and work of a police detective while confronting, for one of the first times in mainstream cinema, previously taboo"
"The Comedians (1967 film) The Comedians is a 1967 American political drama film directed and produced by Peter Glenville, based on the novel of the same name by Graham Greene, who also wrote the screenplay. The stars were Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, and Alec Guinness. Paul Ford and Lillian Gish had supporting roles as a presidential candidate and wife, as did James Earl Jones as an island doctor. Set in Haiti during the Papa Doc Duvalier regime, it was filmed in Dahomey (Benin since 1975). The film tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his"
"(1956), ""Lust for Life"" (1956), ""Ben-Hur"" (1959), ""King of Kings"" (1961) and ""The V.I.P.s"" (1963). For ""Ben-Hur"", he received his third and final Oscar. His final two nominations (one each for Best Original Score and Best Original Song) were for the 1961 Samuel Bronston film ""El Cid"". In 1968, Rózsa was asked to score ""The Green Berets"", after Elmer Bernstein turned it down due to his political beliefs. Rózsa initially declined the offer, saying, ""I don't do westerns."" However, he agreed to compose the score after being informed, ""It's not a Western, it's an 'Eastern'."" He produced a strong and"