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Platoon [videorecording] / - Special edition. - 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. -

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1986. "Version Française incluse"--French container. Special features: "Tour of the Inferno" documentary [making of] featuring interviews with the director, cast and crew (53 min.); Audio commentary with Oliver Stone; Audio commentary with Captain Dale Dye; Original theatrical trailer (2 min.); TV spots (2 min.); "Behind the Scenes" photo gallery [slide show]; Poster art [slide show].

Unknown territory -- Ants -- First week in hell -- Platoon politics -- New guys on ambush -- Dead of night -- Lesson in dying -- Crusader -- Feel-good cave -- Talking trash -- Bunker complex -- "Where's Manny?" -- Doing the village -- Look the other way -- "Fire in the hole" -- Enforced cease-fire -- No faith -- Rainy blur -- Waste of men -- Elias is out there -- "He's dead?" -- Your tired your poor -- Experts on killing -- Live bait -- Rest is gravy -- "Gotta die some time" -- In the foxhole -- Overrun -- One last shot -- Survivors.

Director of photography, Robert Richardson ; editor, Claire Simpson ; original music, Georges Delerue ; military technical advisor, Captain Dale Dye. Director of photography, Robert Richardson ; editor, Claire Simpson ; original music, Georges Delerue ; military technical advisor, Captain Dale Dye.

Tom Berenger (Sgt. Barnes), Willem Dafoe (Sgt. Elias), Charlie Sheen (Chris), Keith David (King), Forest Whitaker (Big Harold), Francesco Quinn (Rhah), Kevin Dillon (Bunny), John C. McGinley (Sgt. O'Neill), Reggie Johnson (Junior), Mark Moses (Lt. Wolfe), Corey Glover (Francis), Johnny Depp (Lerner), Chris Pedersen (Crawford), Bob Orwig (Gardner). Corkey Ford (Manny), David Neidorf (Tex).

In "Platoon," a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left innocence far behind.

MPAA rating: R. CHV rating: 18A.


DVD, Region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., Dolby Digital mono., NTSC.


In English (Dolby 5.1), dubbed French (Dolby 2.0), or dubbed Spanish (Dolby mono.) with optional French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Winner, 1987 Academy Awards for Best Picture (Arnold Kopelson), Best Director (Oliver Stone), Best Film Editing (Claire Simpson), Best Sound (John Wilkinson, Richard D. Rogers, Charles Grenzbach, Simon Kaye).

ISBN: 0792863089 9780792863083 0792849019 9780792849018

Standard No.: 027616862815 027616913777 French container

Publisher. No.: 1007297 MGM Home Entertainment (French container)

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Army
United States. Army --Military life--Drama.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Soldiers--Vietnam--Drama.
Soldiers.
Soldiers--Conduct of life--Drama.
Soldiers--Conduct of life.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Drama.
Tet Offensive, 1968--Drama.
War--Moral and ethical aspects--Drama.
War--Moral and ethical aspects.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Vietnam.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Drama.
War films.
War films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Drama.

LC Class. No.: PN1997 / .P53 2006