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Release Date:
October 17, 1974
Original Title:
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
Alternate Titles:
Vrooder's Hootch
Genres:
Comedy | Drama
Production Companies:
20th Century Fox
Playboy Enterprises
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: PG
Runtime: 98
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.
Art Direction:
Hilyard M. Brown
Associate Producer:
Peter V. Herald
Daryl Henry
Cinematography:
David M. Walsh
Director:
Arthur Hiller
Editor:
Robert C. Jones
Executive Producer:
Hugh Hefner
Makeup Artist:
Edwin Butterworth
Music:
Bob Alcivar
Producer:
Edward L. Rissien
Arthur Hiller
Set Decoration:
Frank Lombardo
Writer:
Daryl Henry
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