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List Price: $6.99 Our Price: $6.99 Features • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 18 November, 1969 DVD Release : 01 December, 2000 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Interesting Early Anti-War Vietnam Movie |
| Majors, shortly after the success of his supporting role in Tom Gries, Will Penny(1968)with Charleton Heston, starred in this made for tv movie about a decorated Vietnam veteran who comes home to less than hero's welcome. Majors plays the lead (Andy Crocker), seriously and with conviction; supporting cast, Pat Hingle, Jimmy Dean, and Joey Heatherton are also quite good. Like "Friendly Fire" (1978), a made for tv movie that won several Emmys and made its debut several years later, The Ballad of Andy Crocker is a film that really should be just as memorable. Incidentally, this was a Aaron Spelling pilot for a series that never materialized.
Unlike the spate of "crazed" Vietnam Vet films that would follow for the next decade a la "Deer Hunter," "First Blood" and the "Rambo" series, this film seriously tries to depict the problems of readjustment to civilian life many vets faced back in the States. Andy finds that his fiance has left him to marry another man, his business partner (Dean), has cheated him, and his father and mother notably estranged from him. In short, the film's ending packs a wallop and is a real testament to the trials and misfortunes so many Vietnam vets faced in their readjustment after the Vietnam War. |
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