The Purple Heart (1944) | |
| Director(s) | Lewis Milestone |
| Producer(s) | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Top Genres | Drama, Historical, War |
| Top Topics | Aviation, True Story (based on), World War II |
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The Purple Heart (1944) was a Drama - Historical Film directed by Lewis Milestone and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
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In 1950, 20th Century Fox theatrically reissued this film on a bill with Belle Starr and Guadalcanal Diary.
According to the article "Hollywood's friends and foes" by Colin Shindler in the film history tome 'The Movie', "In 1943 20th Century-Fox made 'The Purple Heart', best of the anti-Japanese pictures . . . it was intended to strength public hatred of the Japanese at a time when it appeared as if the war in Europe were stealing all the headlines. The film was not finally released until 1944 when the US War Department was prepared to concede officially that the Japanese had indeed been torturing American POWS. Writer & Producer Daryl F. Zanuck would have been quite prepared to wait until the end of the war to release his picture - so strongly did he feel about it."
In the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack and the WW II war in the Pacific, this movie is considered amongst others in film history as an anti-Japanese US war propaganda film.
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According to the article "Hollywood's friends and foes" by Colin Shindler in the film history tome 'The Movie', "In 1943 20th Century-Fox made 'The Purple Heart', best of the anti-Japanese pictures . . . it was intended to strength public hatred of the Japanese at a time when it appeared as if the war in Europe were stealing all the headlines. The film was not finally released until 1944 when the US War Department was prepared to concede officially that the Japanese had indeed been torturing American POWS. Writer & Producer Daryl F. Zanuck would have been quite prepared to wait until the end of the war to release his picture - so strongly did he feel about it."
In the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack and the WW II war in the Pacific, this movie is considered amongst others in film history as an anti-Japanese US war propaganda film.
read more facts about The Purple Heart...
