Jim Hutton

Fearing that a large shipment of whiskey may not reach its destination, a colonel assigns Captain Paul Slater to safeguard the cargo until it arrives.

John Wayne went against the tide of public opinion to both direct and star in a war epic that seeks to justify America's involvement in Vietnam. A commander (Wayne) is sent onto the battlefield to lead a regiment on a mission to kidnap a Vietcong general. As events unfold, a pacifist journalist (David Janssen) covering the sorti is gradually persuaded to accept the justness of the war.