Product Details

• Actors: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger, Kevin O'Shea, Don 'Red' Barry
• Directors: Lewis Milestone
• Writers: Darryl F. Zanuck, Jerome Cady
• Producers: Darryl F. Zanuck
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630166275X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,756 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Stirring WWII Film!, January 28, 2002

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"lac9461" (Burlington, NJ. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Purple Heart [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Dana Andrews is excellent as the Captain of a downed Army Air Corps B25 bomber over Japan. These US Flyers are captured and put on trial in a civilian court in front of the international press for suppossed "crimes against humanity". The Japanese secretly torture the Airmen one by one trying to discover if they came from a land base or a carrier. The story basically revolves around whether or not the American Airmen will tell the Japanese what they want to know. The final minutes of the film are quite stirring. The film music master, Alfred Newman did the score for the film and cleverly chose not to use very much underscoring music until the final scene in the film. Although the music he uses is borrowed and not original his adaptation of it is powerful!

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Purple Heart Not Revealing Enough, September 12, 2004

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Mcs Enterprises Skipper Steely "Skipper Steely" (Paris, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Purple Heart [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The movie is a bit dramatic at times, but those who have studied the Doolittle raid and the treatment of the 8 men captured know it does not tell the American public enough about the terrible way humans treat other humans. If the Americans had been able to know how badly their prisoners were being treated, the Japanese Island might not be there today. Read Four Came Home for the best view, or study other exerpts of various items on the internet. I am writing about Dean Edward Hallmark, a graduate of Paris Junior College and one of the three who were executed.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Choked- Up, August 21, 2001

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Robert A. Senatore (Bellevue, WA>) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Purple Heart [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Most reviews miss what was for me, as a child, the most inspiring portion of the film. I would choke -up at the final scene, when the crew having decided to not tell the details of the raid leave the courtroom to face death, marching down the hallway with smiles on their faces to stirring music. It still grabs me today.