The Purple Plain
- IMDb link: 0047376
- IMDb rating: 6.5 (2,721 votes)
- Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
- Director: Robert Parrish
- Cast: Gregory Peck, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Lee, Win Min Than and others
- Release date: 26 Nov 1954
- Release year: 1954
- Runtime: 100 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom
- Keywords: killed in an air raid, bomber pilot, year 1945, china burma india theater, raf pilot, de havilland dh.98 mosquito, seeing wife killed, killed with a bomb, sweating, singing a hymn
Plot:
After losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air raid, bomber pilot Forrester becomes a solitary killing machine, who doesn't care whether he dies. The reckless Canadian pilot is both admired and feared by the rest of his squadron in World War II Burma. The squadron physician is assigned to determine the embittered Bill Forrester's fitness for duty. To break through the nightmare-haunted man's wall of silence, the physician drives Forrester to visit an outpost of English-speaking refugees, which includes an alluring young Burmese woman.