Returning Vietnam veteran Andy Crocker arrives in his small hometown to discover his best friend and business partner has mismanaged their business into bankruptcy and his high school sweetheart has married another man. It is evident his small town has little to offer him except the hard-working life of his father, while the broader world has limited opportunities for a man who left school after the third grade.
- 4.0
- 1969
- Released
- 1h 14m
Lee Majors
Andy Crocker
Joey Heatherton
Lisa
Jimmy Dean
Mack
Bobby Hatfield
Joe Bob
Marvin Gaye
David Owens
Agnes Moorehead
Lisa's Mother
Pat Hingle
Earl Crocker
Jill Haworth
KarenMimi Dillard
Sara
Barbara Leigh
Mia
Claudia Bryar
Emily Crocker
Lee de Broux
Johnson
Charlie Briggs
Mr. Paisley
Joe Higgins
Mr. BedeckerDavid Kent
Jackie Russell
Kitty
Harry Harvey
Mr. Kirkaby
Peter Haskell
Nelson (uncredited)Warren Peterson
Jimmy (uncredited)
Lisa Todd
Cora Mae (uncredited)Released
en
- #vietnam veteran
- #social outcast
Reviews
***Lee Majors coming home from Vietnam almost ten years before “Coming Home” (the movie)*** Released to TV in 1969, “The Ballad of Andy Crocker” is presumably the first movie to tackle the topic of a Vietnam vet coming home from the war, which didn’t become popular until almost a decade later with films like “Coming Home” (1978). Lee majors stars as the title character, right after his succe