‘The Purple Plain’: The Price of War

Director Robert Parrish’s outstanding wartime tale of post traumatic stress syndrome is one of hope and healing.

Mosquito fighter-bombers prepare to take off in a scene from "The Purple Plain." United Artists

NR | 1h 40m | Adventure, Drama, War | 1954

Burma, 1945. Squadron Leader Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck) is having yet another disturbed night of semi-sleep. His head turns violently back and forth as his sweat-laden body twitches in existential agony.