The Odd Angry Shot is an Australian film based on Australian soldiers and their experiences during the Vietnam War. It follows the departure and tour of duty of an Australian Special Air Service Regiment reconnaissance team and avoids much of the political comment on Australia’s involvement in Vietnam; a theme that became more popular in the 1980’s when Hollywood began to explore the rights and wrongs of the Vietnam War.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:Film/director
dbpedia-owl:Film/distributor
dbpedia-owl:Film/starring
dbpedia-owl:Work/releaseDate
  • 1979-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Work/runtime
  • 5520 (xsd:double)
dbpedia-owl:director
dbpedia-owl:distributor
dbpedia-owl:releaseDate
  • 1979-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:runtime
  • 5520 (xsd:double)
dbpedia-owl:starring
dbpprop:abstract
  • The Odd Angry Shot is an Australian film based on Australian soldiers and their experiences during the Vietnam War. It follows the departure and tour of duty of an Australian Special Air Service Regiment reconnaissance team and avoids much of the political comment on Australia’s involvement in Vietnam; a theme that became more popular in the 1980’s when Hollywood began to explore the rights and wrongs of the Vietnam War. The movie centres on the experiences of the soldiers away from the battle field, spending the bulk of their time playing cards, smoking marijuana, drinking beer, nursing their tinea, making jokes about masturbation and having some friendly competition with the American forces. When the men return to Australia, they reflect on how both they and the general Australian society have changed. The movie was filmed at the Australian Army's notoriously adverse Jungle Warfare Training Centre in Canungra, Queensland. During the Vietnam War, all Australian soldiers - including draftees - who were to be deployed to Vietnam went through four weeks' specialized training in Canungra. The Iroquois ('Huey') helicopters used in this movie are those of 9 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, on loan from the Australian Defence Force. This squadron - and indeed, the very helicopters seen in the film - served in combat during the Vietnam War. Although the capbadges and berets worn in the film are correct for SASR, the missions and training are not representative of the SASR role in Vietnam, but match more closely those of the conventional light infantry of the Royal Australian Regiment, several battalions of whom also served in Vietnam.
dbpprop:caption
  • Film poster
dbpprop:director
dbpprop:distributor
dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
dbpprop:imageSize
  • 200px
dbpprop:imdbTitleProperty
  • The Odd Angry Shot
  • 79652 (xsd:integer)
dbpprop:language
  • English
dbpprop:music
  • Michael Carlos
dbpprop:name
  • The Odd Angry Shot
dbpprop:producer
  • Sue Milliken, Tom Jeffrey
dbpprop:reference
dbpprop:released
  • 1979 (xsd:integer)
dbpprop:runtime
  • 92 minutes
dbpprop:starring
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbpprop:wordnet_type
dbpprop:writer
  • Tom Jeffrey
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Odd Angry Shot is an Australian film based on Australian soldiers and their experiences during the Vietnam War. It follows the departure and tour of duty of an Australian Special Air Service Regiment reconnaissance team and avoids much of the political comment on Australia’s involvement in Vietnam; a theme that became more popular in the 1980’s when Hollywood began to explore the rights and wrongs of the Vietnam War.
rdfs:label
  • The Odd Angry Shot
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:name
  • The Odd Angry Shot
foaf:page
is owl:sameAs of