Knowing that his father had been some sort of WW2 war hero writer James Bradley set out to discover the truth about him and the fellow marines who raised the flag over Iwo Jima for the now infamously 'fraudulent' photgraph. We follow this ironically socially heterogeneous group of men through the horrors of one of the most bloody battles of WW2, interspliced with the early return home of three of the 'heroes' to act as politically manipulated cheerleaders for further fundraising to continue the
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SOUTHERN COMFORT (1982)
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An analogy to Vietnam as a group of National Guardsmen on patrol in the swamps of Louisiana suddenly find that the French speaking locals, supposedly friendly, are a dangerous foe who know the lie of the land. A highly recommended, tense, action-packed thriller with more than a passing resemblance to the earlier and completely brilliant "Deliverance".
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