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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol is a 1972 television film 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.
A Vietnam prisoner-of-war tries to return to the small New England hometown he dreamed of in captivity, but strangely, he can find no trace of it.
- George Mccowan
- Martin Landau
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol: Directed by George McCowan. With Martin Landau, Jane Alexander, Brock Peters, Martin Sheen. Psychological drama about a convalescing Vietnam War army captain who goes AWOL but cannot re-connect with his past.
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- George Mccowan
- Not Rated
- Martin Landau, Jane Alexander, Brock Peters
Jun 28, 2019 · From dusty Vermont libraries to the mean streets of Philadelphia, Johnny carves a swath of unhinged sweatiness across New England! Whether he’s harassing nuns at the orphanage he grew up or terrorizing the lady who runs the corner grocery store, no amount of stereotypical crazed vet behavior is too over the top for Johnny!
Johnny Bristol, an American serviceman finally released from North Vietnamese POW camp, comes home to a VA hospital with the goal of finding his original home. The story line is built around John's attempts to find his boyhood home and family.
Psychological drama about a convalescing Vietnam War army captain who goes AWOL but cannot re-connect with his past. An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town.
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.
