GO TELL THE SPARTANS opens. Written by Wendal Mayes, from the novel by Daniel Ford; directed by Ted Post. Vietnam, 1964. In a remote, non-strategic village, a weary veteran officer (Burt Lancaster) & his team of "military advisors" become the imminent conflict's first sacrificial pawns. Mediative, mournful valediction to a lost cause. With Craig Wasson and Marc Singer.