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Release Date: 1955

Cast: Maurice Denham, Anthony Bushell, Bernard Lee, Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Josephine Griffin, Jack McNaughton, Lyndon Brook, Brenda De Banzie

Categories: Movies, Adventure Drama, War film, Action, Action/Adventure, Film adaptation

The Purple Plain is a 1954 British war film, directed by Robert Parrish, with Gregory Peck playing a Canadian pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma in the closing months of the World War II, who is battling with depression after having lost his wife. It was nominated for two BAFTA awards. The protagonist is Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck), a Canadian pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma, who flies a Mosquito, a two seat, fighter bomber. Forrester is emotionally distraught after losing his new wife in the ‘’Blitz’’ in London and has become self destructive, seeking to... MORE

The Purple Plain is a 1954 British war film, directed by Robert Parrish, with Gregory Peck playing a Canadian pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma in the closing months of the World War II, who is battling with depression after having lost his wife. It was nominated for two BAFTA awards. The protagonist is Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck), a Canadian pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma, who flies a Mosquito, a two seat, fighter bomber. Forrester is emotionally distraught after losing his new wife in the ‘’Blitz’’ in London and has become self destructive, seeking to end his life in action. "You'd think that would be easy in a war", he explains to a Burmese woman, Anna, "but I just kept getting medals instead." With Anna's support, Bill begins to recover his emotional stability. Forrester and his navigator, Carrington (Lyndon Brook), on a routine non-combat flight to Myitkyina, with Flight Lieutenant Blore (Maurice Denham) as passenger in the Mosquito's bomb bay, is forced to go down in a remote desert area of Burma's central plain. When the three men struggle to survive in the hostile environment, the self destructive Bill finally realises that he can depend on LESS