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Director
  
Andrew Marton

Genre
  
War film

Writer
  
Allen Rivkin

Language
  
English

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IMDb

Production
  
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Prisoner of War (film) movie poster

Release date
  
May 4, 1954 (1954-05-04)

Cast
  
Ronald Reagan
(Webb Sloane),
Steve Forrest
(Cpl. Joseph Robert Stanton),
Dewey Martin
(Jesse Treadman),
Robert Horton
(Francis Aloysius Belney),
Paul Stewart
(Capt. Jack Hodges)

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,
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Tagline
  
THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT LIFE IN THE P.O.W. CAMPS! (original print ad - all caps)

Prisoner of War is a 1954 American war–drama film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Ronald Reagan, Steve Forrest, Dewey Martin and Oskar Homolka.

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Prisoner of War (film) movie scenes

Premise

An American officer volunteers to be captured in order to investigate claims of abuse against American POWs in North Korean camps during the Korean War.

Cast

  • Ronald Reagan as Webb Sloane
  • Steve Forrest as Cpl. Joseph Robert Stanton
  • Dewey Martin as Jesse Treadman
  • Oskar Homolka as Col. Nikita I. Biroshilov (as Oscar Homolka)
  • Robert Horton as Francis Aloysius Belney
  • Paul Stewart as Capt. Jack Hodges
  • Harry Morgan as Maj. O.D. Hale
  • Stephen Bekassy as Lt. Georgi M. Robovnik
  • Leonard Strong as Col. Kim Doo Yi
  • Darryl Hickman as Merton Tollivar
  • Weaver Levy as Red guard
  • Rollin Moriyama as Capt. Lang Hyun Choi
  • Ike Jones as Benjamin Julesberg
  • Clarence Lung as MVD officer
  • Jerry Paris as Axel Horstrom
  • John Lupton as Lt. Peter Reilly
  • Ralph Ahn as Red guard
  • Peter Hansen as Capt. Fred Osborne
  • Strother Martin as Man on Crutches
  • Gordon Mitchell as Bit Role
  • Dick Sargent as Lt. Leonard Lee
  • Stuart Whitman as Captain

    • Reception

    According to MGM records the film made $785,000 in the US and Canada and $292,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $111,000.

    Historical accuracy

    Author Robert J. Lentz of the book Korean War Filmography: 91 English Language Features through 2000 states that the film was "undeniably overstated".

    References

    Prisoner of War (film) Wikipedia
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    Prisoner of War (film) IMDb Prisoner of War (film) themoviedb.org