Ralph Macchio goes from waxing cars to breaking your heart in this forgotten war betrayal.
Marine Private First Class Robert Garwood spent fourteen harrowing years as a Vietnam P.O.W. only to finally be released and immediately arrested by the U.S. Marine Corps on charges of collaboration with the enemy. He is found guilty on the strength of the testimony from those P.O.W.s he tried to take care of so many years before and is branded a traitor.
Acting
Macchio's haunted, desperate transformation.
Writing
The impossible question: what would YOU do?
Direction
Brown's claustrophobic flashback structure.
Director
Georg Stanford Brown
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Bobby Garwood was still alive when this aired; he maintained his innocence until his death in 2022.
This TV movie arrived during a brief 90s wave of Vietnam revisionism, before Saving Private Lionized the conflict again.
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