The Boys in Company C

1978

126 Min

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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DIR Sidney J. Furie

CAST Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, James Canning, Michael Lembeck, Craig Wasson, Scott Hylands, James Whitmore Jr., Noble Willingham, R. Lee Ermey, Santos Morales

Synopsis

After bonding in boot camp, five young Marines (Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, James Canning, Michael Lembeck, Craig Wasson and Scott Hylands) experience the horrors of the Vietnam War and try to win big at soccer in order to spend their tour of duty playing exhibition games. This drama follows the rowdy comrades as they face corruption in the ranks, drug addiction and bloody combat. Sidney J. Furie directs.

Director

Sidney J. Furie

Sidney J. Furie (born February 28, 1933) is a Canadian film director. Furie is perhaps best known for directing American Soldiers, The IPCRESS File, The Entity, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Lady Sings the Blues, The Boys, Gable and Lombard, Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York and the Iron Eagle films.

Also credited with co-creating NBC’s off-beat legal drama Petrocelli, which ran from 1974 to 1976 (it was a spin-off from his 1970 film The Lawyer), he also directed Cliff Richard and The Shadows in the 1964 musical Wonderful Life. —Wikipedia