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Music director
  
Paul Schutze

Language
  
EnglishVietnamese

7.1/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Action, Drama, War

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

The Siege of Firebase Gloria movie poster

Writer
  
William L. Nagle
,

Release date
  
January 27, 1989 (1989-01-27)

Genres
  
War film, Drama, Action Film, World cinema, Action/Adventure

Cast
  
R. Lee Ermey
(Sgt. Maj. Bill Hafner / Narrator),
Mark Neely
(Pvt. Murphy),
Garrison Hershberger
(Capt. A.J. 'Bugs' Moran),
Margi Gerard
(Capt. Kathy Flanagan, MD), (Cpl. Joseph L. 'Nard' DiNardo), (Cao Van)

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Tagline
  
Against all odds they went to hell and back.

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The Siege of Firebase Gloria is a 1989 Australian war film starring Wings Hauser and R. Lee Ermey that was filmed in the Philippines. According to a question and answer period in Sydney, director Brian Trenchard-Smith said that R. Lee Ermey wrote the screenplay.

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Plot

The Siege of Firebase Gloria movie scenes

At the start of the Tet Offensive, a Marine unit on patrol stops at Firebase Gloria. When the base comes under attack the patrol remains to help in its defense. The Army soldiers and Marines come under numerous attacks by the VC (Viet Cong), but in the end hold the base with assistance from the First Cavalry Division. While the Marines try to defend the base, the Viet Cong commander discovers that he is in a similar position: it was never his mission to win the battle, but to lead his men to their deaths in order to allow the North Vietnamese Army to take a more substantial role in the war. The Marines are subsequently forced to abandon the base having lost too many men in the process of defending it. In the end, the soldiers and commanders on both sides take stock of the loss of life for this single base.

Cast

The Siege of Firebase Gloria movie scenes

  • Wings Hauser as Di Nardo
  • R. Lee Ermey as Hafner
  • Robert Arevalo as Cao Van
  • Mark Neely as Murphy
  • Gary Hershberger as Moran
  • Clyde Jones as Coates (as Clyde R. Jones)
  • Margi Gerard as Flanagan
  • Richard Kuhlman as Ghost
  • John Calvin as C.O. Williams
  • Albert Popwell as Jones
  • Michael Cruz as Vietnamese Child
  • Erich A. Hauser as Patrol Member (as Eric Hauser)
  • Guel Romero as Patrol Member
  • Don Wilson as Patrol Member (as Donald Wilson)
  • Nick Nicholson as Photographer
  • Release

    The Siege of Firebase Gloria movie scenes

    Although the film was written, produced, and directed by Australians, it was not considered Australian for the AFI Awards.

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    References

    The Siege of Firebase Gloria Wikipedia
    The Siege of Firebase Gloria IMDbThe Siege of Firebase Gloria themoviedb.org