The Summary for this unviewed film is based on reviews in the 21 Apr 1975 Box, the 29 Oct 1975 Var, and the 19 Dec 1975 editions of the LAT and DV.
       A booklet for the film’s “world premiere” in Cleveland, OH, gave the following information, which presumably also appeared in the film’s end credits: “Our Special Thanks To: Leonard, Max and Albert Ratner of Forest City Materials Company; Joe Chizek of Southland Motors; Sandy Miller, President, B. W. Blaushild Dodge; Maurice Saltzman of Bobbie Brooks; Mike Feder, Feder Pontiac; Mayor Walter Kelly, Police Chief and Fire Chief of Shaker Heights, Ohio; John Carroll University and Shaker Heights High School; Coca Cola Company of Cleveland; OSU Athletic Dept.—OSU School of Music.”
       The 29 Sep 1971 DV reported that Hollywood, CA, producer Harold Cornsweet was ready to make a film titled Return to the Campus with private money raised from former classmates at Shaker Heights High School in Cleveland, OH, and Ohio State University in Columbus. With director Alan Factor at the helm and a distribution commitment from Twentieth Century-Fox, Cornsweet hoped to begin his $210,000 film at Shaker Heights High in Oct 1971. He also cast actor Aram Katcher in the lead, the 14 Oct 1971 Var noted. Neither Katcher nor Factor was credited in the eventual film, and Twentieth Century-Fox did not participate.
       With its title shortened to Return to Campus, the film was noted as being currently in production in Shaker Heights, starring Cleveland actors Earl Keyes and Norma Joseph, the 5 Nov 1973 Box reported. The 14 Nov 1973 Var announced its completion. The film’s final cost, according to the 2 Mar 1975 Var, was $350,000. The 9-15 Oct 1975 issue of an unidentified Cleveland newspaper noted that, like his character “Hal Norman,” Cornsweet was a former Ohio State University football player who left school in 1941 because of World War II. Among the Cleveland locations in Return to Campus were John Carroll University, the Shaker Lakes, the Virginian Restaurant, and Rockside Ramada Inn in Cleveland, as well as Ohio State University in Columbus. Cornsweet said he had to fire three actors during production and reshoot their scenes at a cost of nearly $7,000.
       Cornsweet premiered Return to Campus 30 Apr 1975, according to the 21 Apr 1975 Box, but the 6 Oct 1975 Box reported that Cornsweet planned a second premiere—billed as “world premiere”—in Cleveland, with the title changed to The Buckeye Bomber Returns to Campus. However, by the time the film screened on 8 Oct 1975, the title reverted to Return to Campus, according to the 27 Oct 1975 Box. Among attendees was former actor and California governor Ronald Reagan. Cornsweet emphasized the film’s “G-rated, entertaining commercial” appeal “with no violence, dope, drinking, obscene language, cheap sex or crime.” Distributor American Films picked up the film a year later, according to the 15 Sep 1976 Var.
       Following Cornsweet’s death in Oct 1977, DeLuxe General Incorporated in Hollywood, CA, advertised a public sale in order to satisfy a lien of $9,858 against his estate and Return to Campus, Inc., the 17 Feb 1978 DV reported. Sold were “six 35mm mounted cans of action (picture) negative [and] six mounted cans of soundtrack.”