Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

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Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
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Directed by Richard Compton
Written by Guerdon Trueblood
Produced byMarvin Schwartz
Starring Joe Don Baker
Paul Koslo
Alan Vint
Elliott Street
Jennifer Billingsley
Billy "Green" Bush
CinematographyDonald H. Birnkrant
Edited byPatrick Kennedy
Music by Ronee Blakley
Country Gazette
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • September 8, 1972 (1972-09-08)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys is a 1972 American drama film directed by Richard Compton and starring Joe Don Baker, Paul Koslo, Alan Vint, Elliott Street, Jennifer Billingsley and Billy "Green" Bush. Written by Guerdon Trueblood, the film was released on September 8, 1972, by 20th Century Fox. [1] [2] [3]

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Plot

Danny, Shooter, Kid and Fatback are a group of four veterans returning home from Vietnam who decide to subsequently go on a road trip. They decided to purchase a Cadillac, managing to hustle the price down from $6,200 to $5,500 from the dealer and load the Cadillac with weapons. On their way they pick up a girl who begins to party with the gang, but then Danny gets a hold of her and tries to sexually assault her. As she struggles she is thrown out of the car driving at 65 mph, killing her.

The gang decide to visit a bunch of old settlements, meet up in a basketball court inside of a local high school and watching the game, reminiscing on the old times at the school. They meet up in a motel and order a room, where they are accompanied by various women where they play around and start to somewhat discuss about their pasts. Eventually, they leave and try to find another place to stay and crack up a deal with the sheriff in order to allow them to use the cells as a place to stay for the night. He agrees but treats the event almost as if he’s performing a routine arrest in order to keep with policy.

Their car breaks down and eventually they must seek repairs culminating in a total of $1,400 which they eventually pay up after an argument, and then get back to driving. The gang eventually meet up in a diner where they apparently have won $50 from a contest although the diner can not pay up, so the gang eventually steal from the cash register and make the owner prepare a bunch of meals in order to recuperate for the cost. They drive off again and eventually stop at a gas pump, although they are completely broke.

Danny tries to vandalise a gas-pump in order to steal gas from it, when someone peers out the window with a shotgun and shoots at the gang, before eventually being shot by one of the gang members in retaliation. The rest of the gang eventually arm up and go on a killing spree, killing everybody in the village and subsequently destroying various vehicles and houses. The gang begin to experience intense memories of their time in Vietnam and dress up in uniform taking the village as their own, almost like a compound of their own.

Amidst the chaos, the National Guard are called in to dispatch the soldier replete with a convoy of armoured vehicles and a helicopter. The gang manage to shoot the helicopter down with a rocket launcher. The National Guard attempt to dispatch the soldiers by throwing gas bombs down on the area causing the gang to slowly suffocate. A troop of National Guardsmen wearing gas masks slowly march towards the gang each with a rifle in hand, and the gang decide to retaliate against the guardsmen by throwing grenades at them and trying to shoot them, but each of them are shot dead by the guardsmen.

The final shot is of an unknown woman walking slowly among the carnage resulting from the massacre, over a voice-over of Danny reading the Oath of Enlistment at the recruitment centre.

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References

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  2. Greenspun, Roger (1972-09-09). "Movie Review - Welcome Home Soldier Boys - Screen: A Rootless Life:Film About Veterans Is At Neighborhoods". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
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