Friday, March 9, 2012

Movie with title something like "Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol"?

It freaked me out a bit when I first saw it almost twenty years ago. (And it was already an old movie then). In it, a soldier who has amnesia is certain he comes from a town named - I think - Plains, Vermont. His records, however, indicate that he was actually from another town, so he is returned there. Essentially, the rest of the movie is the soldier trying to find out why "Plains, Vermont" is so signficant to him. He goes around questioning people, and they seem to know something but definitely don't want to talk about it. In the end, we find out that while the soldier was a child, his parents were murdered at a street corner in the town and, you guessed it, it was the corner of Plains and Vermont streets. The final shot of the film looks something like the icon to "Answers on the Street" on this site. I have tried to look up this movie online several times but had no luck, so I'm guessing I don't have the title exactly right. Please help me out if you can. Thanks!Movie with title something like "Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol"?
You have the title. It stars Martin Landau as the very confused Johnny Bristol.



This was a TV movie that I remember quite well. It's a great mystery film and should be shown more.Movie with title something like "Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol"?
Could this made for TV movie be the one you're thinking of?



Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol:

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



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067966/plot鈥?/a>





Edited:

It would appear that someone is just a bit faster than I.

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