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A Field Of Honor

1973

Cat no. 3011

Comedy about an ex-serviceman who encounters many dangers in the small town where he lives.

Comedy. A nervous and fragile young ex-serviceman is released from a psychiatric hospital. He is immediately confronted with a series of incidents with which he is unable to cope and is returned to the hospital for further treatment.

Keywords

Psychiatrists; Psychiatric hospitals

Other Places

Los Angeles, California

Background Information

The film came to the attention of Steven Spielberg after winning a Student Academy Award at USC. Spielberg said "He barged past my secretary and sat me down and showed me this student film ... and I thought it was spectacular, with police cars and a riot all dubbed to Elmer Bernstein's score for `The Great Escape'.

  • Director : Robert Zemeckis

  • Script : Robert Zemeckis

  • Assistant director : Mustafa Gursel

  • Editor : Mustafa Gursel

  • Camera : Horace Jordan (cinematographer)

  • Producer : Toby Lovallo

  • Sound : Don Scioli (sound recording and re-recording)

  • Camera : Toby Lovallo (2nd unit cameraman)

  • Editor : Don Scioli (assistant editor)

  • Script : Steve Beard (script supervisor)

  • Make-up : Kate Merriman

  • Special effects : Bob Gale (special effects and titles)

  • Other : Ben Burt (stunt arranger)

  • Other : John Sulak (key grip)

  • Other : Garland Hall (still photography)

  • Music : Elmer Bernstein

  • Production company : University of Southern California, Division of Cinema

  • Distributor : Institute of Amateur Cinematographers

  • Vic Fury Peter Belcher

  • Vic's father Roger Pancake

  • Psychiatrist Roger Vaughn

  • Bus driver Miltos Cottis

  • Vic's mother Jan Musm

  • Hugh Gillin

  • Liz McNally

  • Tom Wallace

  • David Fertik

  • George Coleman

  • : BILL SMITH

  • Steve Beard

  • Ken Stermer

  • Jay Simons

  • Yvonne Winslow

  • Corrine Carrol

  • Tiffany Sanchez

Manifestations

A Field Of Honor

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