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The Rack is a american film of genre Drama directed by Arnold Laven released in USA on 2 november 1956 with Paul Newman
The Rack (1956)
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Add to a movie listThe Rack is a 1956 American war drama film, based on a play written by Rod Serling for television. It was directed by Arnold Laven and starred Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Lee Marvin and Walter Pidgeon. After two years in a North Korean prison camp, an American officer returns home, only to be charged with collaboration by his own side. He is forced to defend his actions in court.
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Having survived two years in Korea in a prisoner-of-war camp, Captain Edward W. Hall, Jr., returns home to San Francisco and reports to an Air Force base there. His father, a retired lieutenant colonel, is glad to have his son back, but still grieving over the death of his other son, Pete, in the war.Actors
Paul Newman
(Capt. Edward W. Hall, Jr.)
Wendell Corey
(Maj. Sam Moulton)
Walter Pidgeon
(Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.)
Edmond O'Brien
(Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick)
Anne Francis
(Aggie Hall)
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