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The Purple Heart is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lewis Milestone released in USA on 25 february 1944 with Dana Andrews

The Purple Heart (1944)

The Purple Heart
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Released in USA 25 february 1944
Length 1h39
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Action
Rating64% 3.245313.245313.245313.245313.24531

For other meanings see Purple Heart (disambiguation).



The Purple Heart is a 1944 American war film directed by Lewis Milestone. The film stars Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Kevin O'Shea, Don "Red" Barry and Trudy Marshall. Eighteen-year-old Farley Granger had a supporting role.

The Purple Heart is a dramatization of the "show trial" of a number of US airmen by the Japanese during World War II. The film is loosely based on the trial of eight airmen who took part in the April 18, 1942, Doolittle Raid. Three were executed and one died as a POW. This film was the first to deal directly with the treatment of POWs by the Japanese and ran into opposition from the US War Department which was afraid that such films would provoke reprisals from the Japanese.

Synopsis

In April 1942, after a raid on Japan, eight American aircrew made up of the crews from two North American B-25 Mitchell bombers, are captured. Capt. Harvey Ross (Dana Andrews), becomes the leader of the captives. Initially, the men are picked up by a local government official who is a Chinese collaborator in a Wang Jingwei controlled section of China. The Chinese official delivers the Americans to the Imperial Japanese Army to be put on trial at the Shanghai Police Headquarters. Although international observers and correspondents are allowed to witness the trial, the commanding officer, General Mitsubi (Richard Loo) refuses to allow Karl Kappel (Torben Meyer), the Swiss Consul to contact Washington.

Actors

Dana Andrews

(Capt. Harvey Ross)Richard Conte

(Lt. Angelo Canelli)Farley Granger

(Sgt. Howard Clinton)Don "Red" Barry

(Lt. Peter Vincent)Trudy Marshall

(Mrs. Ross)
And :
Sam Levene
Charles Russell
Nestor Paiva
Tala Birell
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