John Gray, director of thinking man's TV movies about such subjects as date rape, child abuse and abortion, finds something new to say here about the problems of veterans returning to civilian life after war is over. Gray ducks under our guard on such matters by turning his film into a sort of suspense thriller, in which the veterans, encountering corruption and apathy in their once straightforward home town (in Texas) decide to fight the crooked mayor and his cohorts by standing against them in local elections. Naturally, this exposes them to enmity, racism and violence, or we wouldn't have a viably dramatic film. But Gray plays neatly on our emotions in the battle between good and evil, and elicits a strong performance from Kathleen Quinlan, who did so well as Tom Hanks' wife in the cinema hit Apollo 13.


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