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Purple Heart | 
 enlarge | Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger, Kevin O'shea (iii), Don 'red' Barry
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 36381
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 100
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2243293D
UPC: 024543432920
EAN: 0024543432920
ASIN: B000MGBLJ6
Theatrical Release Date: February 23, 1944
Release Date: April 24, 2007
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Product Description
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/13/2008
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One of Hollywood's most striking films of World War II has very little war in it, yet it whips up a fearsome power. A U.S. bomber that took part in the Doolittle raid on Tokyo crash-lands in Japanese-occupied China afterward. Captured, the officers and crew are hauled before a Japanese court and tried for war crimes. The trial is illegal and stacked against the Americans from the outset. But that doesn't stop it from developing into a fierce duel of nerves and icy politesse, especially between the U.S. commander (Dana Andrews) and the Japanese general (Richard Loo), who is the chief architect of the strategy to break the Americans and learn how the raid was carried out. The story for The Purple Heart was written by none other than 20th Century-Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck, resurrecting one of his pseudonyms--Melville Crossman--from the days when he used to crank out gangster pictures and Rin Tin Tin movies for Warner Bros. Did it have any corollary in fact? Home front audiences in 1944 were ready to believe the worst, and what The Purple Heart asked them to believe was both terrible and inspiring. The film was directed, pungently, by Lewis Milestone, a two-time Oscar winner and Hollywood's most honored chronicler of the horrors of war (e.g., All Quiet on the Western Front); cinematographer Arthur Miller, Fox's master of black and white, worked wonders with the claustrophobic interiors. The solid cast also includes Richard Conte, Sam Levene, and Farley Granger. --Richard T. Jameson
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 Purple Heart August 31, 2008
Typical Wartime Propaganda Film based very loosely on the Dolittle Raid.
Interesting to watch if you like these glossed over stories
 Unrealistic and Unbelieveable Nonsense= A BAD Film August 17, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This film is BAD. Whoever wrote the screenplay should have their SAG card taken away. AMC is dead-on right about this film, it's poorly made trash. The court room scenes are not believeable AT ALL. Just a poorly made film all the way around. I'm giving my copy to the thrift store ASAP.
 Dramatization of Fact July 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Despite what the Blame-America-First crowd might say, Uncle Sam doesn't sit around twisting his beard and hatching racist hegemonistic plots against nations populated predominantly by non-White peoples. The Japanese enemy has pretty much been given a relatively free ride due to the mind-numbing atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis in carrying out their Final Solution. But Allied prisoners had a 99% chance of surviving their stint in a German POW camp. Only 58% survived the Japanese camps and those that did had been reduced to mere skin and bones. The Japanese culture is not hung up on the value of a single human life, especially an enemy who has "dishonored" himself by surrendering. Anyone who thinks that the portrayal of Japanese in "The Purple Heart" is over-the-top American Jingoistic blather should talk to an Allied survivor of a Japanese POW camp. This is a well made, well acted film and an extremely effective piece of propaganda, aimed right dead-center at a more-than-deserving target.
tough not to like, and yet ... June 24, 2008
This movie is tough not to like, and yet it is clearly a propaganda piece of the "Jap-hating" war years.
The plot involves the sham trial of two B-25 crews from the Doolittle raid on Tokoyo captured in occupied China and brought to Japan for trial. The Japanese are besides themselves to determine where the raiding planes came from, and an Army general is convinced it was from a carrier. A naval admiral, responsible for defending the homeland, is equally convinced that it could not have been a carrier raid.
The acting by Dana Andrews and others is fine and you root for the crews as they are subjected to physical abuse and one-sided court room rules to extract the desired information. They are so alone and without defenses other than their trust in one another. And it is that interplay between the crew members and their support for one another that is the strength of the film.
The negative is that this is a war-time film with the Japanese presented as heartless, conniving, semi-humans. You expect at any moment for one of the Japanese officers to say, "So you Yankee dog, you see I understand your country. I U-C-R-A class of 1938!" If you can get past the bash the Japs undercurrent, its an pretty good film.
 A Must See for those who do not with to forget... June 2, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although AMC has the gall to call it "racist propaganda" and portray the Japanese as vicious, Japanse veterans from WWII all tell the same story: how they were, themselves, beaten by their officers, and how they were taught that the Americans were lower than animals, and no cruelty was considered unfit for the Americans.
The movie intimates the brutality and does not show what the Japanese actually did to these brave airmen.
Japanese wartime mentality was animalistic. The rape of Naking, as well as the treatment of American POWs are just two examples of the brutality of these people pre WWII.
Gen. MacArthur, though widely criticized for not prosecuting the Emperor, who had full complicity in war crimes and in the war of aggression, used Hirohito to bring peace. He brought over missionaries and set them up as school teachers, and did an amazing job in de-militarizing the Japanese people and bringing peace to a people who were raised on pagan Emperor worship. He changed their society from the ground up.
No Hollywood movie, thus far, has truly shown how brutal and animalistic the Japanese military were, and this movie is no exception. They did a mock trial and executed these brave men.
For AMC to call it racist propaganda because the judges cheered when news that MacArthur had left Corigidor shows only that they care more for political correctness rather than factual correctness.
don't miss this movie. Never forget what foreign aggression did to our nation while sleeping peacefully on a December Sunday morning, in 1941. Don't forget the bravery of the Doolittle raid, nor of the countless sacrifices made by young men to stop imperialistic barbariansism.
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