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Release Date: 1944

Cast: Benson Fong, Richard Loo, Don "Red" Barry, Trudy Marshall, Sam Levene, Dana Andrews, Nestor Paiva, Richard Conte, Kevin O'Shea, Tala Birell, Farley Granger

Categories: Movies, Western, Action, Action/Adventure, War film

The Purple Heart is a 1944 American war film directed by Lewis Milestone. It is a dramatization of the trial of a number of US airmen by the Japanese during the Second World War. It 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}. It starred Dana Andrews as the leader of the downed crew, and was directed by Lewis Milestone. Eighteen-year-old Farley Granger had a supporting role. In April 1942 the crew of a downed American B-25 Mitchell bomber are captured in a Wang Jingwei controlled section of... MORE

The Purple Heart is a 1944 American war film directed by Lewis Milestone. It is a dramatization of the trial of a number of US airmen by the Japanese during the Second World War. It 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}. It starred Dana Andrews as the leader of the downed crew, and was directed by Lewis Milestone. Eighteen-year-old Farley Granger had a supporting role. In April 1942 the crew of a downed American B-25 Mitchell bomber are captured in a Wang Jingwei controlled section of China by a Chinese collaborator who transferred them to the Imperial Japanese Army. The story relates the torture and hardship the men endured while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried, convicted and executed as war criminals. Throughout, the American stalwarts are subjected to mistreatment and systematic abuse by the sadistic General Mitsubi (Richard Loo) who ultimately chooses to shoot himself, in the face of his captives' unshakable resolve and the realization that the Japanese are doomed to destruction. The film was a work of wartime propaganda that had a stereotypical LESS