Is Purple HEART True Story?
The Purple Heart movie is a 1944 American black and white war film. It was produced by Daryll F. Zanuck. The popular film is a dramatization of the show trial of a number of US airmen by the Japanese government at then time of the Second World War (WW II). The movie is loosely based…
The Purple Heart movie is a 1944 American black and white war film. It was produced by Daryll F. Zanuck.
The popular film is a dramatization of the show trial of a number of US airmen by the Japanese government at then time of the Second World War (WW II). The movie is loosely based on the trial of eight US airmen who actively took part in the April 18, 1942 Doolittle Raid on Japan. This film happens to be the first to have dealt directly with the Japanese treatment of POWs and ran into opposition from the US War Department. The Department was afraid that such films would provoke reprisals from the Japanese government.
The film starred Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Don Red Barry, Sam Levene and Trudy Marshall. Principal photography for the film began on October 11, 1943. It then continued to mid-January 1944.
The Purple Heart movie was actually based on the real-life story of eight Doolittle Raiders who were captured from two different crews: Lieutenants Dean E. Hallmark, Robert J. Meder, Chase Nielsen, William G.
