Genre Drama
War Starring Paul Winfield Country of origin United States | Directed by John Erman Theme music composer Fred Karlin | |
Written by Eugene Logan and David Seltzer | ||
Green Eyes is a 1977 American television film directed by John Erman and written by Eugene Logan and David Seltzer. It is a "touching and moving story" about an Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck (Paul Winfield) who went through a soul searching journey.
Contents
The film was produced by Lorimar Productions and broadcast on ABC.
The film won a Peabody Award and a Humanitas Prize in 1977.
Plot
Lloyd Dubeck (Paul Winfield), "a Vietnam veteran wounded both physically and psychically. Released from a VA hospital, walking with a cane, he can’t find work, can’t seem to fit in. But this isn’t one of those vet-goes-psycho melodramas. Dubeck, sensitively portrayed Paul Winfield, fresh from his Oscar-nominated role in Sounder, finds a renewed sense of purpose by returning to Saigon to search for a Vietnamese woman he had loved and a child he fathered but never got to see. All he knows, thanks to a single letter from her, is that it’s a boy with green eyes".
During his journey, he met a boy name Trung (Lemi) who tricked him and stole all his money at their first encounter, but later accompanied him to find his ex lover Em Thug (Victoria Racimo). They also formed a friendship, which led to a bond they would never forget. Going through several orphanages in Saigon and seeing thousands of Vietnam street kids, Dubeck changed his view and idea about the world and felt quite sympathetic towards those kids, even they were not his son. This experience also caused him befriend with a women Margeret Sheen (Rita Tushingham) who worked for an orphanage.
Eventually, after he found that his son with Em Thug was dead, and Em Thug already moved on and had a baby with another American pilot, he decided to go back to the U.S.A alone. At the last moment, he realized whom he really regarded as his son - Trung and took Trung back to the U.S.A with him.
Other
If you want to find more information about the orphanages in Saigon, please check the links through Rita Tushingham's page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/peter_and_trinh/sets https://www.flickr.com/photos/vietnam_orphanages/sets/