The Purple Heart (1944)
- Directed by
- Lewis Milestone
- Genre
- propaganda film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 14 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
American airmen are captured by the Japanese during World War II and put on trial as war criminals. The film dramatizes the propaganda trial and the harsh treatment the men endure.
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What happens
The Purple Heart is a 1944 American war film produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, directed by Lewis Milestone, and starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Don "Red" Barry, Sam Levene and Trudy Marshall. Eighteen-year-old Farley Granger had a supporting role. The film is a dramatization of the "show trial" of a number of US airmen by the Japanese government during World War II. It is loosely based on the trial of eight US airmen who took part in the April 18, 1942, Doolittle Raid on Japan. Three of the eight were subsequently executed and one later died as a POW. This film was the first to deal directly with the Japanese treatment of POWs and ran into opposition from the US War Department, which was afraid that such films would provoke reprisals from the Japanese government. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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