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Release Date: 1987

Cast: Anjelica Huston, Carlin Glynn, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Elias Koteas, James Earl Jones, Mary Stuart Masterson, Dean Stockwell, James Caan, D. B. Sweeney, Lonette McKee, Dick Anthony Williams ...MORE

Cast: Anjelica Huston, Carlin Glynn, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Elias Koteas, James Earl Jones, Mary Stuart Masterson, Dean Stockwell, James Caan, D. B. Sweeney, Lonette McKee, Dick Anthony Williams, Bill Graham, Casey Siemaszko ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Film Adaptation, Drama Film, War Film, Anti-War Film, Anti-War

Gardens of Stone is a 1987 film by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel of the same title by Nicholas Proffitt. A drama, it stars James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones and D. B. Sweeney. A hardened Korean and Vietnam War veteran, Sergeant First Class Clell Hazard (James Caan) would rather be an instructor at the U.S. Army School of Infantry, at Fort Benning, Georgia, to train soldiers for Vietnam but instead he is assigned by the Army to the 1st battalion 3d Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) at Fort Myer, Virginia. The Old Guard is U.S. Army's Honor Guard. It provides the... MORE

Gardens of Stone is a 1987 film by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel of the same title by Nicholas Proffitt. A drama, it stars James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones and D. B. Sweeney. A hardened Korean and Vietnam War veteran, Sergeant First Class Clell Hazard (James Caan) would rather be an instructor at the U.S. Army School of Infantry, at Fort Benning, Georgia, to train soldiers for Vietnam but instead he is assigned by the Army to the 1st battalion 3d Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) at Fort Myer, Virginia. The Old Guard is U.S. Army's Honor Guard. It provides the ceremonial honor guard for the funerals of fallen soldiers and guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Hazard calls them the "toy soldiers" and hates his job until Jackie Willow (D. B. Sweeney), the son of an old friend and fellow veteran, is assigned to his platoon and he sees an opportunity to make sure at least one man comes home alive. Hazard tries to warn Willow about Vietnam but the young man sees it as his duty as a soldier to fight for his country, no matter what kind of war. Hazard hates how the war in Vietnam is being fought and feels that good soldiers are LESS