The Bamboo Prison (1954)

Directed by

Lewis Seiler

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American soldier pretends to be a communist sympathizer while held in a Korean War prisoner camp. He works as a spy for the US Army within the camp.

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What happens

The Bamboo Prison is a 1954 American Korean War–drama film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Robert Francis, Brian Keith, Dianne Foster, and Jerome Courtland. The working title was I Was a Prisoner in Korea. The US Army denied their co-operation to the producers. Due to Cold War hysteria, the film was falsely accused of communist sympathies, with several US cities banning it, although the film is clear that Sgt. Rand was actually a spy for the US, pretending to be a sympathizer. The brainwashing and abuse of American POWs during the Korean War were also dramatized in P.O.W. (1953), Prisoner of War (1954, starring Ronald Reagan), and The Manchurian Candidate (1962, starring Frank Sinatra). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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