Francis Coppola's heart-on-sleeve Vietnam movie, set in the late Sixties and among the Old Guard at Fort Myer: ceremonial "toy soldiers" charged with burying the dead at Arlington National Cemetery. Whether the maker of Apocalypse Now was motivated here by genuine contriteness, hypocritical and trendy conformism, broad-minded desire for a better balance, or something else entirely, is a matter for his own conscience and maybe for biographical critics of the school of Sainte-Beuve. The scene in which the crusty career sergeant (James Caan) karate-chops a belligerent William Kunstler-like peacenik attorney, although strong evidence in the case for hypocrisy, is inexcusable in whatever case. With D.B. Sweeney, James Earl Jones, Anjelica Huston, and Mary Stuart Masterson. (1987) — Duncan Shepherd
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