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G6600 GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM (USA, 1987)

Credits: director, ; writer, Mitch Markowitz. Cast: , , Tung Thanh Tran. Summary: War/ set in and around Saigon in the 1960s based on the true story of . Cronauer (Williams) is an irreverent, nonconformist Air Force enlisted man who works as a disc jockey on Armed-Forces Radio in Saigon early in the . Imported by the Army to host an early morning radio show, Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.’s love him, but the brass is up in arms.

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