Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)

- Directed by
- George McCowan
- Genre
- tv movie, drama
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A Vietnam War POW returns home to find his entire town has vanished. He searches for answers about what happened to his family and community.
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What happens
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol is a 1972 television film written by Stanley R. Greenberg, directed by George McCowan and starring Martin Landau and Jane Alexander. The screenplay concerns a soldier returning from Vietnam, where he was a POW, who finds his home town missing. It is one of the earliest films to depict post traumatic stress disorder. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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