New Movies: Marshmallow Moratorium

O.K., says the Hollywood smart money, kids are buying antiwar, we'll give them antiwar. And so there are movies like Hail, Hero.

A Western kid, Carl Dixon (Michael Douglas), goes AWOL from an Eastern college. He returns to the family ranch—a spread about the size of Rhode Island—to make an important announcement: he has enlisted in the Army to see if he can love the enemy up close as he does from afar. But nobody listens. Dad and Mom (Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright) are too busy bickering. His crippled brother is off...

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