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A decorated Korean War hero inexplicably collaborates with the enemy while interred in a POW camp and is court-martialed.
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Capt. Edward W. Hall, Jr.
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Maj. Sam Moulton
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Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.
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Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick
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Aggie Hall
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Capt. John R. Miller
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Caroline
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Col. Ira Hansen
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Law Officer (as Robert Simon)
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Court President
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Sgt. Otto Pahnke
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Millard Chilson Cassidy
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Col. Dudley Smith
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Maj. Byron Phillips
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Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
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Skinny (uncredited)
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Italian Soldier (uncredited)
John Carlyle ...
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Dick Cherney ...
Judge (uncredited)
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Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Willa Pearl Curtis ...
Mother (uncredited)
Roy Damron ...
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Harry Denny ...
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Darren Dublin ...
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Michael Dugan ...
Military Policeman (uncredited)
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Nurse (uncredited)
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Blind Soldier (uncredited)
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General (uncredited)
Charles Fogel ...
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Raoul Freeman ...
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Robert Haines ...
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Jean Hartelle ...
Italian Father (uncredited)
Tex Holden ...
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Shep Houghton ...
Judge (uncredited)
Bobby Johnson ...
Waiter (uncredited)
Tim Johnson ...
Student (uncredited)
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Lieutenant (uncredited)
William Justine ...
Party Guest with Bourbon (uncredited)
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Announcer (uncredited)
Lois Kimbrell ...
Army Nurse (uncredited)
Wallace Earl Laven ...
Secretary (uncredited)
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Military Policeman (uncredited)
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Mary McAdoo ...
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Man at Airfield (uncredited)
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Woman at Airfield (uncredited)
William Meader ...
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Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
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Party Guest (uncredited)
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Baby Face (uncredited)
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Big Frank (uncredited)
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Emma Palmese ...
Italian Mother (uncredited)
Murray Pollack ...
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General (uncredited)
Victor Romito ...
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Aaron Saxon ...
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Burt Steiner ...
Blind Soldier (uncredited)
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William Stevens ...
Military Policeman (uncredited)
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Ryson (uncredited)
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Ambulance Attendant at Airport (uncredited)
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Al (uncredited)
Russ Whitney ...
Officer (uncredited)

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Arnold Laven

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Stewart Stern ... (screen play)
 
Rod Serling ... (teleplay)

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Arthur M. Loew Jr. ... producer

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Adolph Deutsch

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Paul Vogel ... director of photography (as Paul C. Vogel)

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Harold F. Kress
Marshall Neilan Jr.

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Cedric Gibbons
Merrill Pye

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Fred M. MacLean ... (as Fred MacLean)
Edwin B. Willis

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William Tuttle ... makeup artist

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Robert Saunders ... assistant director

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Wesley C. Miller ... recording supervisor (as Dr. Wesley C. Miller)
Charles E. Wallace ... sound (uncredited)
Wally Wallace ... sound mixer (uncredited)

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Alexander Courage ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Adolph Deutsch ... musical director (uncredited)

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Grace Dubray ... script supervisor (uncredited)

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Charles M. Trammel Jr. ... technical advisor (as Col. Charles M. Trammel Jr. USAR)
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Plot Summary

Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the Korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell? Written by Mattias Thuresson

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Taglines All the drama, the suspense, the power of "The Caine Mutiny"! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Le supplice des aveux (France)
  • Traidor a su patria (Spain)
  • Deus é Meu Juiz (Brazil)
  • Hjemkomst (Norway)
  • Traidor a su patria (Chile)
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  • 100 min
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Budget $779,000 (estimated)

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Trivia Rod Serling took 19 months to complete the teleplay, the longest he ever spent writing a single screenplay. It also took seven re-writes to get to the final version, the most of any of his screenplays. See more »
Goofs In the closing scene inside the courtroom, Capt. Miller (Lee Marvin) conspicuously comes in and sits down in a chair right next to the door, against the back wall. We see him there in a couple of close-up shots, but in several wide camera shots taken from the front of the courtroom, he is nowhere to be seen. See more »
Movie Connections Referenced in Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (1995). See more »
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Quotes Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick: [Addressing the jury, presenting the closing arguments for Capt. Hall's defense] Gentlemen, I have here a document which is not very pleasant to read. It's a communiqué written by the Communists describing shortcomings they observed among certain American prisoners of war.
Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick: [Quoting from the document] "One: Many of the prisoners reveal weak loyalties to their families, their communities, and their army. Two: When left alone, they tend to feel deserted, and they underestimate their ability to survive, because they underestimate themselves."
Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick: Now, the report goes on to say that even some of our university graduates have a very dim idea of American history and of the strengths and weaknesses of American democracy and that they are virtually ignorant of Communism, because we have never taken the trouble to inform them of its nature. The Communist program of indoctrination was based on this appraisal - and succeeded, because in many cases, the appraisal was true... And now we must judge Capt. Hall. Gentlemen, if there is guilt, where does it lie? In that small number who defected under pressure, as Capt. Hall did? Or do we not share it? At least those of us who created *part* of a generation which may collapse, because we have left it uninspired, uninformed, and - as in the case of Capt. Hall - unprepared to go the limit, because he had not been given the warmth to support him along the way... And now we must judge Capt. Hall. And let us make absolutely certain, that we have had no part in his collapse. This man has proven himself in the two wars of his youth, who has been exposed to conditions of captivity, against which we have never had to test ourselves.
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