Baby Blue Marine (1976)

Jan-Michael Vincent, Glynnis O'Connor, Katherine Helmond, Dana Elcar, Bert Remsen ... see more  , Richard Gere , Art Lund , Michael Conrad , Allan Miller , Michael Le Clair , Will Seltzer , Kenneth Tobey , Abraham Alvarez , Adam Arkin , John Blythe Barrymore , Warren Burton , John Calvin , Damon Douglas , Marshall Erwin Efron , Lelia Goldoni , Barton Heyman , Evan C. Kim , Bruno Kirby , William Martel , Richard Narita , Carole Ita White , Keone Young , Duncan Gamble , Bill Sorrells

In this WWII-era drama, Jan-Michael Vincent plays Marion Hedgepeth, a young Marine who fails out of a boot camp in 1943 and gets sent home wearing a baby blue suit to symbolize shame and dishonor. In ... read more Los Angeles, he runs into a veteran who -- eager to be discharged -- k.o.'s him and switches their uniforms. When Marion regains consciousness, he's clad in a hero's uniform. He begins hitching his way toward his home in St. Louis, dreading the prospect of confessing to his folks, but stops for a time in a small town where he's mistaken for a hero and immediately falls in love with a waitress, Rose (Glynnis O'Connor). Meanwhile, as the truth threatens to emerge and bring disgrace raining down onto his head, several residents of a Japanese internment camp escape. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi