An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Flyora into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes.
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war.
In WWII, a squad of U.S. African-American soldiers are sent on a rescue mission behind enemy lines to locate their lost commanding officer and a downed fighter pilot.
Against the backdrop of the Typhoon Yolanda, a mother and her son struggle for survival and deal with absurdity of fate, sustained by the hope that they carry, and what is lost and gained.
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Gregory Peck - The Purple Plain (1954): 1 First meeting with Anna
The Purple Plain is a small war film that is more about character study of survival than showing the 'glory of battle.' Peck played a depressed & suicidal ...
Gregory Peck - The Purple Plain (1954): 5 Hope is just around the bend!
In his final moments just as Forrester's weary body is just about to give out he hears the sound of the river below. The river has never felt so beautiful and ...
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Gregory Peck - The Purple Plain (1954): 6 Ending Scene Forrester comes back to Anna.
Ignoring the doctor's orders to go to the hospital all Forrester wants to do when he gets back to the base is to see Anna again. She is after all the one who gives ...
Gregory Peck - The Purple Plain (1954): 4 Forrester finds out about Bloor's fate
This is such a moving scene where Bloor who in the beginning in the movie had so much to live for ended up killing himself out of intense hopelessness.
Gregory Peck - The Purple Plain (1954): 2 Dinner with Miss McNab & singing the Easter hymn
Forrester is introduced to Miss McNab the Christian missionary Anna's family is living with. Forrester's feelings for Anna are obvious Peck exchanges plenty of ...
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