He forgives his son, but the official judgment is less kind. Hall's father, who finally attends the trial, is devastated by his son's testimony about his breaking point.
Hall experienced a breaking point when the enemy delivered a letter from his father, revealing his brother Pete's death. Facing repeated demands to read propaganda statements, Hall relented but wrote one himself, using language that attempted to mock the enemy's purpose. This includes how he was ordered to bury other soldiers, dead or alive how he carried a wounded man for four days so he wouldn't collapse and be placed in a grave solitary confinement for months at a time, denied light and company and forced to live in his own excrement. Frank Wasnick ( Edmond O'Brien), persuades him to take the witness stand and explain his actions. Hall is disconsolate and wishes to plead guilty. Hall has his sister-in-law's support, but his father initially refuses even to attend the trial. In unguarded comments on the stand Miller calls Hall a coward.Ĭapt. John Miller ( Lee Marvin), reveals scars received from enemy inflicted torture, but claims he never conceded to his captors anything but his name, rank and serial number. A fellow prisoner and much-decorated officer, Capt. He calls eyewitnesses who testify that at the POW camp in the winter of 1951, Hall made speeches and signed documents on the enemy's behalf. Major Sam Moulton ( Wendell Corey) prosecutes the case. cruelly challenges his son: "Why didn't you just die?" Hall's father asks his son if the charges are true, and receives a stark, simple, reply: "yes, I did". Hall's father is unaware that his son is about to be tried in a court-martial for collaboration with the enemy. Hall, surprising Colonel Dudley Smith ( Fay Roope), a friend of Ed, Sr. Pete's widow, Aggie Hall ( Anne Francis), confides to her friend Caroline ( Cloris Leachman) it is difficult to be around her brother-in-law without painful reminders of her lost husband. His father ( Walter Pidgeon), a retired colonel, is glad to have his son back despite grieving over the death of his other son, Pete. ( Paul Newman), returns home to a US Army post in San Francisco. Having survived two years in a Korean prisoner-of-war camp, Captain Edward W. He is forced to defend his actions in court.
It was directed by Arnold Laven and stars Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Anne Francis, Lee Marvin and Walter Pidgeon.Īfter two years in a North Korean prison camp, an American officer returns home, only to be charged with collaboration by his own side. The Rack is a 1956 American war drama film, based on a television play written by Rod Serling.
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