Genres
Production Companies
Australian Film Commission
Samson Productions Pty. Ltd.
The Odd Angry Shot
In Vietnam, the name of the game is survival.
Overview
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
Key Crew
Director: Tom Jeffrey
Producer: Sue Milliken, Tom Jeffrey
Director of Photography: Donald McAlpine
Screenplay: Tom Jeffrey
Top Cast
Graham Kennedy
Harry
John Hargreaves
Bung
John Jarratt
Bill
Bryan Brown
Rogers
Graeme Blundell
Dawson
Richard Moir
Medic
Peter Drouyn
Sergeant Johnson
Ian Gilmour
Scott
Videos
The Odd Angry Shot (1979) - NFSA Restores trailer
