The Siege of Firebase Gloria

The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)

Against all odds they went to hell and back.

A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it.

Date of release
1989-01-27
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (62)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Action, War
Director
Brian Trenchard-Smith

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Philippines

The Siege of Firebase Gloria is a 1989 Australian war film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, starring Wings Hauser and R. Lee Ermey. It was filmed in the Philippines.

Production

The Siege of Firebase Gloria was filmed on land that was contested by the New People's Army (NPA)—members of whom had been hired as security guards and extras—and Trenchard-Smith recalled that the Philippine government-owned helicopters that were to be used in battle scenes arrived half a day late, as their crews had been strafing NPA positions 100 miles north.

Drawing inspiration from his two tours of duty during the Vietnam War, Ermey co-scripted additional scenes for the film in collaboration with the director; Hauser similarly devised his own dialogue for his character's confessional scene near the climax.

According to Trenchard-Smith, he was influenced by Zulu (1964) in his approach to making the film, and that he wanted it to be about "war and reconciliation". To further this theme, the film was to be book-ended by a framing device set years after the Tet Offensive, whereby Ermey's character Sgt.

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