The Bamboo Prison (1954)
1h 19m
Running Time
June 15, 1954Release Date
The Bamboo Prison (1954)
1h 19m
Running Time
June 15, 1954Release Date
Plot.
A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.
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Cast & Crew.
Robert Francis
MSgt. John A. Rand
Dianne Foster
Tanya Clayton
E.G. Marshall
Father Francis Dolan
Brian Keith
Cpl. Brady
Jack Kelly
Slade
Jerome Courtland
Arkansas
Keye Luke
Comrade-Instructor Li Ching
Lewis Seiler
Director
Edwin Blum
Writer
Earle Hyman
Doc Jackson, medic
Jack DeWitt
Writer
Richard Loo
Commandant Hsai Tung
Bryan Foy
Producer
Burnett Guffey
Cinematographer
Murray Matheson
Comrade Clayton
Henry Batista
Editor
Media.
Details.
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The Bamboo Prison is a 1954 American Korean War film–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.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.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).