Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1971)

Directed by

Richard Compton

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four young men return from the Vietnam War and have trouble adjusting to civilian life. They travel through the American Southwest and their behavior grows increasingly erratic and violent.

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What happens

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys is a 1971 American drama film directed by Richard Compton and starring Joe Don Baker, Paul Koslo, Alan Vint, Elliott Street, Jennifer Billingsley and Billy "Green" Bush. Written by Guerdon Trueblood, the film was released on December 10, 1971, by 20th Century Fox. The website Letterboxd lists this movie as belonging to the vetsploitation subgenre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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