The Odd Angry Shot
The Odd Angry Shot

The Odd Angry Shot

In Vietnam, the name of the game is survival.

6.1(26 votes)
1979
1h 32m
War
Action
Comedy

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.

Production

New South Wales Film Corp., Australian Film Commission, Samson Productions Pty. Ltd.

Cast

Graham Kennedy

Graham Kennedy

Harry

John Hargreaves

John Hargreaves

Bung

John Jarratt

John Jarratt

Bill

Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown

Rogers

Graeme Blundell

Graeme Blundell

Dawson

Richard Moir

Richard Moir

Medic

Peter Drouyn

Peter Drouyn

Sergeant Johnson

Ian Gilmour

Ian Gilmour

Scott

Graham Rouse

Graham Rouse

The Cook

Tony Barry

Tony Barry

Black Ronnie

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