Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1971)Director:Richard ComptonWriter:Guerdon Trueblood |
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Danny
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Shooter
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Alan Vint | ... |
Kid
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Fatback
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Jennifer Billingsley | ... |
Broad
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Sheriff
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| Geoffrey Lewis | ... |
Francis Rapture, Motel Owner
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Lydia
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Timothy Scott | ... |
Mike
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Lonny Chapman | ... |
Danny's Father
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Florence MacMichael | ... |
Danny's Mother
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Cherie Foster | ... |
Gloria
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Beach Dickerson | ... |
Used Car Salesman
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Ted Markland | ... |
Hick #1
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Joel Lawrence | ... |
Trooper
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Danny, Shooter, Fatback, and the Kid are carrying a deadly disease. War. See more »Genres:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
10 December 1971 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Five Days Home See more »Filming Locations:
Little Rock, Arkansas, USACompany Credits
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"Welcome Home, Soldier Boys" is a fun movie if you check your mind at the door. I saw the film in a cheap Tokyo theater while attending Sophia University on G.I. Bill payments I had earned through 4 years in the air force including one year in Vietnam. With "Welcome Home Soldier Boys" the viewer rides along with four Vietnam vets who buy a large touring car (a black Cadillac, if I remember correctly) as they drive east after being discharged on the West Coast. Within a few hours they pick up a female hitch-hiker and have sex with her in the back seat of the rambling car. They offer her something like two hundred dollars but she intends to extort A LOT more than that out of them since, as she points out, they have just transported her over a state line which makes their activities a felony. An argument ensues, followed by an altercation that accidentally results in the young lady falling out of the car at 65 miles per hour. "What do you think?" one of them asks Joe Don Baker, the still recognized ranking man. "I think she should have taken the two hundred dollars." Interrupted by a few pleasant moments, a series of disappointments and frustrations gradually eats away at the patience of the four Vietnam vets. The last straw is when they run out of gasoline in a small town. What happens next makes the wrath of Rambo against the small Oregon town look like a model of restraint.