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The Purple Heart is a 1944 American war drama film directed by Lewis Milestone for 20th Century Fox. It stars Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Don "Red" Barry, Sam Levene, Trudy Marshall, and Farley Granger in an early role.

The film is a dramatization of the "show trial" of a number of US airmen by the Japanese government during World War II. It is loosely based on the trial of eight US airmen who took part in the April 18, 1942, Doolittle Raid on Japan. Three of the eight were subsequently executed and one later died as a POW. This film was the first to deal directly with the Japanese treatment of POWs and ran into opposition from the US War Department, which was afraid that such films would provoke reprisals from the Japanese government.

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