PURPLE HEART, THE

Details

• Release Year: 1944
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Plot: Four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of American flyers take part in the first U.S. air retaliation attack against Japan - and crash-land into history's most astounding prisoner-of-war story!; Made at the height of World War II, this reality-based war drama stars Dana Andrews and Farley Granger as two of the eight 'Doolittle Raiders' who are put on trail in a Japanese civil court, now as P.O.W.s, but as criminals charged with murder! As this travesty of justice proceeds, the airmen realize that their only hope of avoiding execution is to reveal to their enemy captors the top-secret details of their flight to Japan. The choice between death and betrayal of country is theirs to make in this 'magnificent testament to American braver';
• Cast: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger, Kevin O'Shea, Don 'Red' Barry, Trudy Marshall, Sam Levene, Charles Russell, John Craven, Tala Birell, Richard Loo, Peter Chong, Gregory Gaye, Torben Meyer, Kurt Katch, Martin Garralaga, Erwin Kalser, Igor Dolgoruki, Nestor Paiva, Alex Papana, H.T. Tsiang, Benson Fong, Keye Chang, Wing Foo, Paul Fung, Joseph Kim, Luke Chan, Beal Wong, Marshall Thompson, Philip Ahn, Anne Baxter, Spencer Chan, Isabel Cooper, Ángel Cruz, Johnny Dong, Roque Espiritu, Harold Fong, Lee Tung Foo, Allen Jung, Pete G. Katchenaro, King Kong, Eddie Lee, George T. Lee, James B. Leong, Leon Lontoc, Clarence Lung, Moy Ming, Georgie Nokes, Frank Tang, Bruce Wong, Don Zelaya, Lewis Milestone
• Director: Lewis Milestone
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: 20th Century Fox
• Media Format: Movie