7.5
“Did Sergeant Fall for Commie Cutie...Or Was He Pushed?”
The Bamboo Prison (1954)
June 15, 19541h 19mEN
6.4
9 votes
Overview
A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.
Director
Lewis SeilerWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures
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CinemaSerf
6.0Brian Keith is adequate here as the all-American "Brady" who is taken to a POW camp during the Korean War. It's there that encounters the ostensibly collaborative "Rand" (Robert Francis) who has befriended "Tanya" (Dianne Foster) who is, herself, married to another whose loyalties are distinctly questionable. Pretty quickly we learn that nobody is quite who they seem and with a backdrop of severe torture, manipulation and fear we find that each of the Americans now suspect the other and are constantly trying to vie for the upper hand - all under the outwardly benign gaze of "Fr. Dolan" (EG Mar…
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