A Day in Vietnam (1967)

★★★★ · Dragnet Meets W.C. Fields · junya · 2012-03-23

Dragnet's Jack Webb's trademark deadpan voice is used effectively to narrate this period piece. In the finale, we discover one soldier's true motive for fighting in jungles so far from home: "These men prove everyday they understand the why of Vietnam. Listen to a few letters written home by these young men, some of whom have since been killed: 'Its a lousy war - as is any war...But I'd rather be here than in Minnesota'". Of course, the letter is probably as bogus as the cheesy sound effects. But that makes it all the more funny: to think that some writer actually managed to slip that joke…