1964 - THE LIEUTENENT: In The Highest Tradition

Lt. William Rice: Gary Lockwood
Peter Booney: Andrew Duggan

Gregg Sanders: Leonard Nimoy
Ruth Donaldson: Majel Barrett
Captain Ray Rambridge: Rober Vaughan
Harris: Don Penny  
Festus: Ken Curtis

Lt. Rice is to write about the platoon's history and finds out that Peter Booney, the only survivor did not get any citation as the others of the platoon did. When Gregg Sanders, an actor and director in Hollywood, finds out about the story, he plans to make a big movie of the battle, more interested in effects and showing himself playing Peter Booney, whom he plans to make a hero of the battle, than in the facts. Booney behaves rather hesitant. Not only for modesty and concern about the droppings of actual facts to the benefit of action, but because he is feeling guilty, actually like a coward, because he was not with his platoon when all had died. 
He cannot bear the development which makes him more and more a hero and speaks to Rice revealing the truth. All the time he had tried in agony to reach the platoon, but arrived late. Booney gladly accepts the solution that the theme of the film is altered: Sanders will not film the battle, but the former Lieutenant's agonizing attempt to reach his platoon – even if Sanders cannot refrain from making this a hero's show.