The Purple Heart

film by Milestone [1944]

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  • Mutiny on the Bounty
    In Lewis Milestone: War dramas

    …1944 Milestone received praise for The Purple Heart, a stirring tale (cowritten by Darryl F. Zanuck) about U.S. Air Force crewmen (Andrews, Richard Conte, and Granger, among others) who are shot down over Tokyo and tried for war crimes by the Japanese. A Walk in the Sun (1945) was a…

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