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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.
Lancaster's first filmed movie was Desert Fury for Wallis in 1947, where Lancaster was billed after John Hodiak and Lizabeth Scott. It was directed by Lewis Allen. [9] [10] Then producer Mark Hellinger approached him to star in 1946's The Killers, which was completed and released prior to Desert Fury.
Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Foreign Movie Performer 1976 1900: Alfredo Berlinghieri the Elder Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson: Ned Buntline: The Cassandra Crossing: Colonel Stephen Mackenzie 1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming: General Lawrence Dell The Island of Dr. Moreau: Dr. Paul Moreau 1978 Go Tell the Spartans
Douglas intended to star in the film along with his frequent costar Burt Lancaster. Douglas offered Lancaster the General Scott role, while Douglas agreed to play Scott's assistant. [9] Frankenheimer commissioned Nedrick Young to rewrite the scene in which Casey visits Holbrook at her apartment. [10]: 1:05:00
Burt Lancaster and Harold Hecht had just signed a contract with United Artists to make two films, starting with Apache, also directed by Robert Aldrich. Just before filming on that movie began in October 1953, Lancaster announced their second film would be Vera Cruz with himself and Gary Cooper, based on a story by Borden Chase. [7]
Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 American thriller film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. The film was a West German/American co-production , shot mainly at the Bavaria Studios .
The Kentuckian is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Burt Lancaster, who also stars. This is one of only two films that Lancaster directed (the other was The Midnight Man), and the only one for which he has sole credit. It is Walter Matthau's film debut.
Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) is a Canadian former prisoner of war now living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent. He gets into a pub fight in which he kills the publican and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton (Joan Fontaine), who believes his story that the killing was an accident.