Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)

An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he can find no trace whatsoever of it.

Date of release
1972-01-30
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
TV Movie, Drama
Director
George McCowan

Casting

Interesting facts

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.

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