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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 didnt become popular until almost a decade later with films like Coming Home (1978).
Lee majors stars as the title character, right after his successes in Charlton Hestons Will Penny (1967) and, of course, The Big Valley. Unfortunately, this flicks nowhere near as good as Coming Home. Its a sad sack drama highlighted by the late 60s setting and jaw-dropping beauty of curvy Joey Heatherton (as Lisa). Cutie Jill Haworth is also on hand as a hippie chick in the opening act.
The rest of the cast is ...