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Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 1007297 | MGM Home Entertainment (French container)Language: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Beverly Hills, CA : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006]Edition: Special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

0792863089
9780792863083
0792849019
9780792849018

Uniform titles:

Platoon (Motion picture)

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

LOC classification:

PN1997 .P53 2006

Contents:

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.

Production credits:

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

Awards:

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).

Cast: 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).Summary: 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-03049 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050304890

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].

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).

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