 The Kulik movie was a "banal, dour Vietnam vet docudrama" where Meade concocts the scheme to escape a postwar malaise and gets upset when he wins the acclaim as a hijacker that eluded him as a veteran.The Shelton-Spotiswoode movie was more of a chase comedy "about a man who returns home and plans to get himself the easy money that's part of the American dream for him and for all the low-lifes he meets along the way (including a Nam comrade who returns to haunt Meade like a comic Javert).