this be an interesting and hard to find movie from the early 70 star jan michael vincent a a young man who doesn not make the cut a a marine . dress in baby blue outfit to humiliate them a they be send home and the failed recruit be sent packing . vincent stop at a bar and run into a very young richard gere who have just return from a tour in the pacific a a hard core marine raider . gere character be already jade and contemplate desertion and and he take advantage of vincent innocence and steal his baby blue uniform after get him drunk and beat him in an alleyway . vincent character and whose name be marion and take gere outfit and be suddenly transform into a marine raider . marion hitch hike his way into wyoming and stop at a little norman rockwell like little town . in the local café he meet rise hudkins and who immediately catch his eye . stay with hudkins parent and marion attract all sort of attention from the town folk . mr hudkins suspect marion and wonder how a marine raider could still be so innocent . the story also bring up the japanese internment camp and a the town folk go hunt 3 escapee . marion be shot accidentally during this hunt . but there still a happy end and which befuddle me a bit . i would have prefer a little more drama . anyway and this capture jmv at the peak of his 70 performance . buster and billie and baby blue marine and white line fever in the mid 70 be amazingly good jmv performance . he be both an action star and a heart throb all at the same time . he make a lot of quality movie during his career and and continue to do so up into the mid 80 with the great tv show airwolf . he do a very good job in this a hedge and quietly observe the way people treat him ( in his uniform ) a he travel across the country . he must have perform some of the stunt work as well there be a harrow river scene at the end of the movie and it look like he the guy get toss down the river to me . but really and at the height of his popularity and this movie could have do so much more with jmv talent and his look . innocence can only be so interesting . evil and a explore in buster and billie and be much more dramatic . anyway and glynnis oconnor be delightful a rise . the whole look of the movie be like a norman rockwell painting . the outdoor scene be gorgeous must have be film in canada .