The Purple Heart

1944 Starring Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Richard Conte, Sam Levene 99 minutes

"The Purple Heart" tells the story of eight downed U.S. bomber crew members captured by the Japanese in China after a bombing run over Japan in the early days of WWII. The Americans are given a mock trial, where they are wrongly accused, and found guilty, of bombing churches and schools and machine gunning children. The men are tortured, one by one, when they refuse to name where they launched their planes from. When they are given the chance of a lighter sentence if they talk, will the men who haven't yet been tortured be able to resist the temptation?

This movie is based on the real life exploits of eight members of Jimmy Doolittle's April 1942 raid on Japan, America's answer to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. "The Purple Heart" is almost entirely fictionalized, because the details of the raid were not made public until long after it took place. The last of an unofficial trilogy of movies about the Doolittle Raid, it follows, chronologically, "Destination Tokyo" and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo." "The Purple Heart" is a very good movie, with usual amounts of war-time patriotism. Definitely worth watching.

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