The Bamboo Prison
1954 film by Lewis Seiler / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Bamboo Prison is a 1954 American Korean War–drama film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Robert Francis, Brian Keith, Dianne Foster, and Jerome Courtland. The working title was I Was a Prisoner in Korea. The US Army denied their co-operation to the producers.[1]
The Bamboo Prison | |
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Directed by | Lewis Seiler |
Written by | Edwin Blum Jack DeWitt |
Produced by | Bryan Foy |
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Cinematography | Burnett Guffey |
Edited by | Henry Batista |
Color process | Black and white |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Due to Cold War hysteria, the film was falsely accused of communist sympathies, with several US cities banning it, although the film is clear that Sgt. Rand was actually a spy for the US, pretending to be a sympathizer.[2]
The brainwashing and abuse of American prisoners of war during the Korean War was also dramatized in P.O.W. (1953), Prisoner of War (1954, starring Ronald Reagan), and The Manchurian Candidate (1962, starring Frank Sinatra).