The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
If they think you're crazy, you can get away with anything.
98 min
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.
- Release date
- October 17, 1974
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Timothy Bottoms as Julius Vrooder
- Barbara Hershey as Zanni Willis
- George Marshall as Corky
- Lawrence Pressman as Dr. Melvin Passki
- Albert Salmi as Splint
- Richard Dysart as Father
- Dena Dietrich as Mother
- Michael Cristofer as Alessini
- Jack Colvin as Sergeant
- Andrew Duncan as Chaplain
Crew
- Arthur Hiller · Director
- Daryl Henry · Writer
- Arthur Hiller · Producer
- Edward L. Rissien · Producer
- Bob Alcivar · Composer
- David M. Walsh · Cinematographer
- Robert C. Jones · Editor
- Lynn Stalmaster · Casting director