Go Tell the Spartans

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa, about U.S. Army military advisors during the early part of the Vietnam War in 1964, a time period when Ford was a correspondent in Vietnam for The Nation magazine. The screenplay, by Wendell Mayes, was shopped around for years with various older leading men attached to it in the role of Major Asa Barker. Barker is a weary infantry veteran in his thir ...