The Boys in Company C (1978)

Directors

Sidney J. Furie

Cast

Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, James Canning, Michael Lembeck, Craig Wasson

The story

In August 1967, a group of young men arrive for recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. They include a draft-dodging hippie from Washington state, Dave Bisbee, who is delivered in handcuffs by FBI agents; a hardened drug-dealer, Tyrone Washington, from Chicago, Illinois; the naive and unassuming Billy Ray Pike from Galveston, Texas, who leaves behind a pregnant girlfriend; a streetwise ladies' man, Vinnie Fazio, from Brooklyn, New York; and a mild-mannered aspiring writer, Alvin Foster from Emporia, Kansas, who is writing a journal detailing his experiences. The five young men find Marine Corps training dehumanizing and…

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