Poster

Odd Angry Shot, The

Year

1979

Genre

Action, Comedy, War

Country

Australia

Director

Tom Jeffrey

Writer

Tom Jeffrey, William L. Nagle

Actors

Graham Kennedy, John Hargreaves, John Jarratt, Bryan Brown, Graeme Blundell, Richard Moir, Ian Gilmour, Graham Rouse, John Allen, Tony Barry, Brandon Burke, Mike Harris, Johnny Garfield, Ray Meagher

Description

A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.

Comments

Duration

89 minutes (at 25 frames per second)

Filesize

653 MB

Video

DivX 5 - resolution: 512x288

Audio