From: Reviews and Criticism of Vietnam War Theatrical and Television Dramas (http://www.lasalle.edu/library/vietnam/FilmIndex/home.htm) compiled by John K. McAskill, La Salle University ([email protected])

S7730 (USA, 1983) (Other titles: Windhunde)

Credits: director, ; writer/play, David Rabe. Cast: , , , . Summary: Stage play adaptation set in a U.S. military barracks in 1965. Four young recruits and two Army veterans await the orders that will send them to Vietnam. Threatened and altered by forces beyond their control, herded, confined and stripped of all protective armor, they are driven into a confrontation as violent and psychologically devastating as war itself when is learned that one of them is homosexual.

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