The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

"If they think you're crazy, you can get away with anything."

After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatrically impaired." Taking the news with an air of initially lighthearted defiance, Vrooder escapes and sets up camp under a highway, where he builds a paranoia-driven booby-trapped bunker for himself. Falling in love with not-so-bright nurse Zanni, Vrooder soon plans to elope with her to a remote Canadian outpost.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Cast

Timothy Bottoms

Vrooder

Barbara Hershey

Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)

George Marshall

Corky

Lawrence Pressman

Passki

Albert Salmi

Splint

Richard Dysart

Father

Dena Dietrich

Mother

Michael Cristofer

Alessini (as Michael Ivan Cristofer)