The Purple Heart (1944)
February 25, 1944Release Date
The Purple Heart (1944)
February 25, 1944Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Dana Andrews
Capt. Harvey Ross
Richard Conte
Lt. Angelo Canelli
Farley Granger
Sgt. Howard Clinton
Kevin O'Shea
Sgt. Jan Skvoznik
Don Barry
Lt. Peter Vincent
Trudy Marshall
Mrs. Ross
Sam Levene
Lt. Wayne Greenbaum
Richard Carroll
Writer
Charles Russell
Lt. Kenneth Bayforth
John Craven
Sgt. Martin Stoner
Richard Loo
General Ito Mitsubi
Tala Birell
Johanna Hartwig - Berlin News Correspondent
Lewis Milestone
Director
Peter Chong
Mitsuru Toyama
Jerome Cady
Writer
Anne Baxter
Anne (voice) (uncredited)
Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer
Alfred Newman
Composer
Arthur C. Miller
Cinematographer
Douglass Biggs
Editor
James Basevi
Art Direction
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
Alfred Bruzlin
Sound Director / Sound
Sam Benson
Costume Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 25, 1944
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 39m
Content RatingNR
Genres
Wiki.
The Purple Heart is a 1944 American war film, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, directed by Lewis Milestone, and starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Don "Red" Barry, Sam Levene and Trudy Marshall. Eighteen-year-old Farley Granger had a supporting role.
The film is a dramatization of the "show trial" of a number of US airmen by the Japanese government during World War II. It is loosely based on the trial of eight US airmen who took part in the April 18, 1942, Doolittle Raid on Japan. Three of the eight were subsequently executed and one later died as a POW. This film was the first to deal directly with the Japanese treatment of POWs and ran into opposition from the US War Department, which was afraid that such films would provoke reprisals from the Japanese government.