What is Slaughterhouse-Five / Happy Birthday, Wanda June about?

Name: Slaughterhouse-Five / Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Genre: Comedy,Drama

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, 1972, Universal, 104 min. Dir. George Roy Hill. Middle-aged optometrist, Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks), who survived the WWII firebombing of Dresden, simultaneously exists in the past as a young POW in a German prison camp and in the far future as an elderly resident in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore. With Ron Leibman, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, Perry King and Eugene Roche. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE, 1971, Sony Repertory, 105 min. Dir. Mark Robson. After being lost for eight years in the Amazonian rain forest and given up for dead, big white hunter Rod Steiger returns home with his sidekick William Hickey. But Steiger is in for a surprise when he finds that his former wife (Susannah York) is now highly educated and enamored of a gentle, pacifist doctor (George Grizzard). Pamelyn Ferdin is the couple’s deceased progeny, Wanda June, playing shuffleboard with Jesus in heaven.

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What is Slaughterhouse-Five / Happy Birthday, Wanda June about?: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, 1972, Universal, 104 min. Dir. George Roy Hill. Middle-aged optometrist, Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks), who survived the WWII firebombing of Dresden, simultaneously exists in the past as a young POW in a German prison camp and in the far future as an elderly resident in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore. With Ron Leibman, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, Perry King and Eugene Roche.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE, 1971, Sony Repertory, 105 min. Dir. Mark Robson. After being lost for eight years in the Amazonian rain forest and given up for dead, big white hunter Rod Steiger returns home with his sidekick William Hickey. But Steiger is in for a surprise when he finds that his former wife (Susannah York) is now highly educated and enamored of a gentle, pacifist doctor (George Grizzard). Pamelyn Ferdin is the couple’s deceased progeny, Wanda June, playing shuffleboard with Jesus in heaven.