**SPOILERS** Hard hitting war drama with future President of the United States Ronald Reagan as US Army Captain Webb Sloane going undercover-as as an American POW-to get the goods on the Reds in how they brutally and inhumanly threat, against the rules of warfare, their prisoners of war in that hell that was the Korean War.
In order to throw off suspicion on himself Sloane becomes a Commie stooge, or collaborator, that makes his fellow GI's in the POW camp hate his very guts. Hard as he tries to be a Commie rat-fink Sloane can't help showing his true colors-Red White & Blue-instead of the ones-deep Commie Red-he masks himself with. That fact soon comes to light in Sloane coming to aid of his fellow American POW's when the chips are down. This has Sloane saving one of of the POW's lives when he came down with a near-fatal attack of appendicitis! In another heroic effort Sloane prevented another GI Cpl. Joe Stanton,Steve Forrest-who killed the camps brutal commissar Russian Col. Biroshilov played by Oskar Homolka-from being shot by hiding the evidence of what he did. This was after Cpl. Stanton killed Col.Biroshilov for having his cute little pet dog Eloise beaten to death, in order to make Stanton cooperate, in front of his very eyes!
***SPOILER ALERT***In the end Sloane did get the evidence of what a bunch of vicious and sadistic swines the Commies were but to his surprises he wasn't sent to the Soviet Union as he planned, so he can be a mole inside the Kremlin for the US. Sloane instead was shipped, after being released from prison, straight back home in the good old USA. That dubious honor, of being sent to the USSR, went to fellow US Commie collaborator and undercover agent Pvt. ???? who had less to lose in being that he's single and with no living family members back in the states, like Sloane has, for him to worry about.
The movie shows how the rotten Commies used captured GI's, through both threats and persuasion, to confess to war crimes that they didn't commit in order to turn the free world against the USA back then in the early 1950's. It took brave and patriotic Americans like Webb Sloane, by risking their very lives, to set the record straight in who, the USA/UN forces or Red Chinese/North Korean Communists, were really committing major war crimes in the Korean War. But sadly enough, like in the movie, many many patriotic American soldiers broke under the unrelenting pressure, of Commie brainwashing or just plain old intimidation, and ended up helping the Commie cause if just only in being used for propagandist purposes. These brave but later broken US fighting men who were in many cases driven insane by the Commies around the clock brainwashing tactics have to live with what they did, in helping Americas sworn enemies, for the rest of their lives.
In order to throw off suspicion on himself Sloane becomes a Commie stooge, or collaborator, that makes his fellow GI's in the POW camp hate his very guts. Hard as he tries to be a Commie rat-fink Sloane can't help showing his true colors-Red White & Blue-instead of the ones-deep Commie Red-he masks himself with. That fact soon comes to light in Sloane coming to aid of his fellow American POW's when the chips are down. This has Sloane saving one of of the POW's lives when he came down with a near-fatal attack of appendicitis! In another heroic effort Sloane prevented another GI Cpl. Joe Stanton,Steve Forrest-who killed the camps brutal commissar Russian Col. Biroshilov played by Oskar Homolka-from being shot by hiding the evidence of what he did. This was after Cpl. Stanton killed Col.Biroshilov for having his cute little pet dog Eloise beaten to death, in order to make Stanton cooperate, in front of his very eyes!
***SPOILER ALERT***In the end Sloane did get the evidence of what a bunch of vicious and sadistic swines the Commies were but to his surprises he wasn't sent to the Soviet Union as he planned, so he can be a mole inside the Kremlin for the US. Sloane instead was shipped, after being released from prison, straight back home in the good old USA. That dubious honor, of being sent to the USSR, went to fellow US Commie collaborator and undercover agent Pvt. ???? who had less to lose in being that he's single and with no living family members back in the states, like Sloane has, for him to worry about.
The movie shows how the rotten Commies used captured GI's, through both threats and persuasion, to confess to war crimes that they didn't commit in order to turn the free world against the USA back then in the early 1950's. It took brave and patriotic Americans like Webb Sloane, by risking their very lives, to set the record straight in who, the USA/UN forces or Red Chinese/North Korean Communists, were really committing major war crimes in the Korean War. But sadly enough, like in the movie, many many patriotic American soldiers broke under the unrelenting pressure, of Commie brainwashing or just plain old intimidation, and ended up helping the Commie cause if just only in being used for propagandist purposes. These brave but later broken US fighting men who were in many cases driven insane by the Commies around the clock brainwashing tactics have to live with what they did, in helping Americas sworn enemies, for the rest of their lives.