The Odd Angry Shot (1979)
"In Vietnam, the name of the game is survival."
Title: The Odd Angry Shot
Original Title: The Odd Angry Shot
Release Date: 1979-03-01
Status: Released
Rating: 6.1/10 (from 26 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: War, Action, Comedy
Production Companies: New South Wales Film Corp., Australian Film Commission, Samson Productions Pty. Ltd.
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.
Cast
Graham Kennedy
Harry
John Hargreaves
Bung
John Jarratt
Bill
Bryan Brown
Rogers
Graeme Blundell
Dawson
Richard Moir
Medic
Peter Drouyn
Sergeant Johnson
Ian Gilmour
Scott
Graham Rouse
The Cook
Tony Barry
Black Ronnie
