Nothing to recommend in this, not a thing believable about it.
The prisoners come in from a death march where over half of them supposedly died...and don't even appear tired. They're even clean shaven.
North Korean soldiers played by Chinese American actors with Chinese accents. Seemingly the film makers didn't notice or thought the audience wouldn't know the difference.
Having prisoners constantly joking makes it seem like the prison isn't bad at all. Unlike Stalag 17 where the abuse was executing escapees but not starvation.
The brainwashing is shown as just giving lectures about Marxism. And having a Black prisoner defend racism in America is bizarre and not believable. IRL many of those who defected were Black GIs fed up with Jim Crow.
The romance is hokey and unbelievable and so is an American newspaper man defector in the camp wearing an expensive suit.
At best a curiosity to see Brian Keith and Henry Morgan in early roles.
The prisoners come in from a death march where over half of them supposedly died...and don't even appear tired. They're even clean shaven.
North Korean soldiers played by Chinese American actors with Chinese accents. Seemingly the film makers didn't notice or thought the audience wouldn't know the difference.
Having prisoners constantly joking makes it seem like the prison isn't bad at all. Unlike Stalag 17 where the abuse was executing escapees but not starvation.
The brainwashing is shown as just giving lectures about Marxism. And having a Black prisoner defend racism in America is bizarre and not believable. IRL many of those who defected were Black GIs fed up with Jim Crow.
The romance is hokey and unbelievable and so is an American newspaper man defector in the camp wearing an expensive suit.
At best a curiosity to see Brian Keith and Henry Morgan in early roles.