Director: Ted Post
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith
Year: 1978
Ted Post liked to direct Clint Eastwood in the 60s and early 70s; I guess that would have been like directing Tom Hanks in the 90s, an almost guaranteed success and a huge crutch for any filmmaker. Rawhide, Hang ‘Em High, Magnum Force; that is some of Post’s best work, and he threw in Beneath the Planet of the Apes for good measure. But the magic would run out when Post moved toward the end of his career, and Go Tell the Spartans is definitely not an example of his prime years. Burt Lancaster and Co. couldn’t deliver a strong enough product to support the message that was being relayed, an expose on war that made its…Read the entire review
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