Platoon (film) Dye, who played Bravo company's commander Captain Harris, is a U.S. Marine Corps Vietnam War veteran who also served as the film's technical advisor. The movie is "Dedicated to the men who fought and died in the Vietnam War." The film score was by Georges Delerue. Music used in the film includes "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber, "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane, and "Okie From Muskogee" by Merle Haggard (which is an anachronism, as the film is set in 1967 but Haggard's song was not released until 1969). During a scene in the "Underworld," the soldiers sing along to
The Big Broadcast of 1938 as a companion piece to "Two Sleepy People," written in September 1938 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Frank Loesser, which was also performed by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross in the later film, "Thanks for the Memory" (1939). The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: On 13 May 2008, "The New York Times" reviewed a new DVD box set of Leisen titles, released by Universal, including "Big Broadcast of 1938", which is the only one of the "Big Broadcast" films to be released on VHS or DVD to date. The Big Broadcast of 1938 The