Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway is nearing mandatory retirement from the Marine Corps.

During the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, a group of recruits arrive at Parris Island.

In a small Georgia town in 1948, Buster Lane (Jan-Michael Vincent) is a handsome, popular high-school senior, who is engaged to be married to his pretty, popular high-school sweetheart Margie Hooks (Pamela Sue Martin).

The film opens on a black screen, with white letters describing the date and place, as we hear radio chatter about a "suspicious vehicle" followed by the sound of an explosion and gunfire.

Young pregnant divorcee Kate (Cristina Raines) falls in love with struggling musician Sam Hayden (Cliff DeYoung), and they become a couple, eventually getting married.

Marion “Hedge” Hedgepeth, a Marine recruit during World War II, washes out in recruit training in San Diego.

Sally Field stars as Denise "Dennie" Miller, a young woman who returns to her parents' suburban home after a year of living with hippies.

Dyan Cannon plays Madie Levrington, a wealthy woman who is also neurotic.

The film follows a suspended young seaman (Jan-Michael Vincent) who takes up temporary housing in a neighborhood overrun by a gang while waiting for his next orders to ship out.

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The film opens with pub landlord and frequent holidaymaker Vic Flange (Sid James) openly flirting with the sassy saucepot widow Sadie Tompkins (Barbara Windsor) as his battleaxe wife, Cora (Joan Sims), looks on with disdain.

President Fenton and the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives are killed at a summit in Frankfurt, West Germany when the palace hosting the legation collapses.