A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement finds similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before.
Burt Lancaster
as Maj. Asa Barker
Craig Wasson
as Cpl. Courcey
Marc Singer
as Capt. Alfred Olivetti
Joe Unger
as Lt. Raymond Hamilton
David Clennon
as Lt. Finley Wattsberg
Evan C. Kim
as Cowboy
John Megna
as Cpl. Ackley
Hilly Hicks
as Signalman Toffer
Dolph Sweet
as Gen. Harnitz
Clyde Kusatsu
as Col. Minh
James Hong
as The Old Man
Dennis Howard
as Cpl. Abraham Lincoln
