
In Vietnam, the name of the game is survival.
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.
$600,000
March 1, 1979
New South Wales Film Corp., Australian Film Commission
28 people

Graham Kennedy
Harry
Acting

John Hargreaves
Bung
Acting

John Jarratt
Bill
Acting

Bryan Brown
Rogers
Acting

Graeme Blundell
Dawson
Acting

Richard Moir
Medic
Acting
Peter Drouyn
Sergeant Johnson
Acting

Ian Gilmour
Scott
Directing

Graham Rouse
The Cook
Acting

Tony Barry
Black Ronnie
Acting

John Allen
Lieut. Golonka
Acting

Brandon Burke
Isaacs
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