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Path to War
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783120935
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783120931
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: HBO Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundSpanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: HBO Video
MPN: D91911D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: HBO Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Running Time: 164 minutes
Studio: HBO Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 18, 2002
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Editorial Review:
The quagmire that was the Vietnam War comes to vivid life in this HBO film--not in the jungles of Southeast Asia, but in the offices of the White House, where a disastrous U.S. policy was forged. From Lyndon Johnson's landslide 1964 victory to his weary withdrawal from the 1968 race, Path to War charts the disappearance of LBJ's "Great Society" domestic dreams into the bramble patch of war. The bungled decisions are forcefully directed by John Frankenheimer, whose expertise at political intrigue shines in his final film. Donald Sutherland and Alec Baldwin do some of their best work in years (as Clark Clifford and Robert McNamara), although the great actor Michael Gambon, while impressive, doesn't quite capture the honey lilt of LBJ's beguiling style. Among the many superb scenes: Johnson intimidating an outmatched George Wallace (an unbilled Gary Sinise, re-creating a role from another Frankenheimer HBO film) on civil rights. --Robert Horton
PATH TO WAR tells the inside story of how "the best and the brightest" advisors in the Johnson administration including Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and special advisor Clark Clifford counsel the President in the decisions that will lead to America's deeper and deeper engagement in Vietnam. Torn between those who recommend increased bombing to win and those who advise a path be found to peace Johnson watches as his presidency and his nation are torn apart by the deaths of young Americans overseas and the protests of those who remain.Running Time: 164 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359191121
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - America's Nightmare retold
This story begins with the reason why Vietnam began and how it spiraled out of control. How it began with just a few retaliation strikes and blew up to be a full fledged war. Johnson misled by his advisors and generals believing that to act forcibly would be the only way to stop communism from spreading through southeast Asia. McNamara was the principal drum beater for this course until he realized that the policy could not win. Unfortunately he leaves the cabinet and Johnson has the full brunt of ... Read More
Rating:  - Very Surprising!
After watching the film "Nixon" (which I thought was over-the-top in its representation of how Nixon behaved) I didn't know what to expect from this film. WOW, this is well acted and balanced concerning the views of the Vietnam war. No doubt the real LBJ went thru hell about Vietnam and it comes out in this film. Of course, McNamara has already confessed to his wrong positions that he held, and he was finely portrayed by Alec Baldwin.
Now, somebody get a copy of this to McInsane and ... Read More
Rating: - Great Item!
I know Johnson had his flaws, But If I were in his shoes maybe I would of done the same thing.
Rating: - McNamara's Way In Living Color; LBJ Still Unknown
Oh man. Yet another movie that doesn't hammer it home about LBJ, almost yet another item out of thousands of seeming-like disinformation. But, what's actually interesting is that when it comes to McNamara, it does seem a great deal more accurate when one actually looks into McNamara's track records compared to the gentle old soul in "Fog Of War" who tries to distance himself from what he really was - Donald Rumsfeld's unknowing teacher. I'd say this flick is good at looking at McNamara instead of ... Read More
Rating: - EERIE SIMILARITIES
PATH TO WAR is an HBO film, almost a docudrama, about the war in Vietnam-not the one fought on the battlefield but the one being fought in the White House. Donald Sutherland (Clark Clifford) and Alec Baldwin (Robert McNamara) are outstanding and Michael Gambon (Lyndon Johnson) also turns in a terrific performance of a President fighting the battles of ego and conscience. LBJ was a very complex personality and much of that persona comes through in the film. The eerie part is the comparison between then ... Read More
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