What a name for a movie of this genre I thought at the opening scenes of the movie.
Where do causalities of war end up.. in war cemeteries.
What do you find in war cemeteries.. stones arranged in a file like soldiers standing equidistances to long lengths.
And so the concept of looking at it as a garden of stones. Wonderful naming. (I later found out from Google that 'Gardens of Stone' seem to be used sometimes like a phrase in the west to refer to war cemeteries.)
So, i continued watching the movie..
After the hour and 50 minutes...
Ok. the film had a very light story about the soldier spirit of things without the action part. So, none of the cast fired any guns much.. except notably 3 shots fired saluting soldiers who die in action...so much they avoid the action part.. Like in old Indian movies, they show black-and-white real war footage in bits here and there to compensate for the action part.
I liked two things about the movie.. one, as already mentioned the name 'Gardens of stone', the second, was a character sgt.genrl.Goody...who does a supporting role to the main character of the film.
If you got a sleepy 2 hrs to spend, and you want to watch a light movie but still war based, then this might fit the bill.
The movie is an old one, probably released sometime during the ending days of the Vietnam war (which the Americans still debate whether they lost or won). This movie probably tried to make for lost motivation with soldiers then... or so i seem to believe.
