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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-04 12:53 AM
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Title of this obscure Vietnam era movie?
Help me out here:

Made for TV movie - early 1970s.
While in captivity, a Vietnam POW describes his quaint home town, Charles Vermont, in great detail to his cellmate(s). After release he returns home only to find that the town has simply vansished. Most of the movie that I recall consists of flash-backs to his time in prison camp and his search to find out what happened to the town he grew up in.
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The town never existed. He was traumitized by seeing his parent murdered in front of their home - which was on the corner of Charles and Vermont. He had essentially created an imagined childhood and eventually convinced himself that it was real.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-04 01:09 AM
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1. Welcome Home Johnny Bristol
Edited on Fri Dec-24-04 01:10 AM by gmoney
http://www.cool-movie-trivia.com/Question_Answers_08_31_03.htm

"The movie your husband is after was a 1972 made-for-tv movie starring Martin Landau called "Welcome Home Johnny Bristol." Landau played a Vietnam vet who was held captive for two years in a hellish prison camp, and clung to memories of his hometown of Charles, Vermont. However when he was finally released he discovers there is no record of his hometown, but instead that he lived in a rough part of Philadelphia at the corners of Charles and Vermont streets. At the end of the movie, we see Landau in a military psychiatrict ward. Haven't seen it myself, but sounds like a classic 70's"
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-04 01:18 AM
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2. Thanks - didn't even show up in the Golden Movie Retriever
But now that I know the title:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067966/

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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-04 01:32 AM
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3. Sounds like the inspiration for 'Jacob's Ladder'.
Spooky flick. :scared:
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