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.
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide.
On the morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of ships reached the French coast of Normandy as part of an Allied operation to take back France from the Germans.
After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bring the Nazis victory against the local Allied forces.
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
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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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Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the Academy Film Archive. During the American Civil War, two Union soldiers and a Confederate solider fire at each other from across a brook.
The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.
A young woman takes up a job as a cook in a wealthy couple's residence. Her employer, an elderly man is infatuated with her, much to the dismay of his arrogant wife.
Southern California teenagers join the Mobilgas "Safety and Economy" competition, driving from the Los Angeles area to the Inland Empire, the desert, to Las Vegas, Nevada and Hoover Dam, then back home again.
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away.
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist.
A handsome newcomer in a village marries a local girl. A year or so later an abandoned baby is left on the couple's doorstep, a baby the man had with another woman.
