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The Purple Plain
Australian film poster
Directed byRobert Parrish
Screenplay byEric Ambler
Based onThe Purple Plain
by H. E. Bates
Produced byJohn Bryan
StarringGregory Peck
Win Min Than
Maurice Denham
Lyndon Brook
Bernard Lee
CinematographyGeoffrey Unsworth
Edited byClive Donner
Music byJohn Veale
Production
company
Two Cities Films
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
United Artists (US)
Release date
  • 14 September 1954 (1954-09-14)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.3 million (US)[1]

The Purple Plain is a 1954 British war film directed by Robert Parrish, with Gregory Peck playing a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in the Burma campaign in the closing months of the Second World War, who is battling with depression after having lost his wife to German bombing in London. The cast also included Win Min Than, Maurice Denham and Lyndon Brook. The film was shot at Pinewood Studios and on location in Ceylon. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jack Maxsted. It was nominated for two BAFTA awards. The film was based on the 1947 novel of the same name by H. E. Bates.

  1. ^ "The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955." Variety Weekly, 25 January 1956.

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