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Best Documentary Features | 1975
National Film Preservation Board | 2018
The Influentials | 2014
Best Documentary | 1975
Best Documentary Film | 1975
Box Office Collection 30,000 USD
During his Oscar acceptance speech producer Bert Schneider read a letter from the head of the Viet Cong lauding his film. Bob Hope prompted Oscar host Frank Sinatra to disclaim any political statements that had been made during the show.
In a Moviefone interview, Michael Moore cites this as one of his inspirations to begin making films.
It is interesting to note that the Vietnam War ended (4/30/1975) approximately four months following the film's qualifying week long run, the same month Hearts And Minds won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (4/8/1975).
A temporary restraining order was lifted (22nd January 1975) against a section of film that concerned Walt Rostow (national security advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson). Claiming that the interview of himself may damage his image.
Columbia Pictures refused to distribute the film, and the production company could not pay the million dollars the studio demanded for its return. Therefore, producer Bert Schneider went to Henry Jaglom and Zack Norman (a/k/a Howard Zuker) to buy back the film. It was Howard Zuker who financed the purchase from Columbia, negotiated the new distribution deal with Warner Brothers and arranged with Marshall Naify at the United Artists Theater Circuit for a last minute awards-qualifying run in Los Angeles. Thereafter, the movie became a Howard Zuker/Henry Jaglom presentation.
"Daniel Ellsberg: The question used to be: might it be possible that we were on the wrong side in the Vietnamese War? But, we weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side."
"Gen. William Westmoreland: The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does the Westerner. Life is plentiful, life is cheap in the Orient. And, eh, that's the philosophy of the Orient. Expresses it - life is not important."
