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I saw Lost Command in Vietnam...

posted 17 years ago by alexisdetroit
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Just before Christmas '67 I was at a Marine Corps basecamp at An Hoa SW of Danang. Someone threw up a whitewashed sheet of plywood and then plugged a 16mm projector into a generator. We pulled up ammo boxes for seats and the show began.

The feature film was...Lost Command.

I figured someone either had a dark sense of humor or was oblivious to the historic take of the movie and the audience at An Hoa.

The other movie shown during that holiday week was...

Fortune Cookie

[–] jake-ryan1968 14 years ago

We used to get tapes of Wild Wild West with Robert Conrad. They were great. Unfortunately, some times we'd get the series COMBAT with Vic Morrow. Didn't go over well because we were already in Combat at Hue City.

The movie we hated was Two for the Road with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. It was interesting until she cheats on him. We started throwing beer cans at the white plywood screen.

We called it, "Sandbag Little Theatre" and it was in Phu Bai, just outside Hue City in mid-1968. About 20 Marines watching 16mm/35mm films sitting on lawn chairs in the heart of the way. Lots of Fun (not).

[–] lvrepoman 11 years ago

Watching a movie about Dien Bien Phu (at least partially) on the eve of Tet...the irony just drips....

Bet you had some interesting experiences shortly after viewing this film.

"He was running around like a rooster in a barnyard full of ducks."--Pat Novak