The Hanoi Hilton
Record details
- ISBN: 9781419872938
- ISBN: 1419872931
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Physical Description:
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
videodisc
videorecording - Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2008]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987. Special features: "Perseverance of strength: a conversation with John McCain:" the Arizona Senator talks with writer/director Lionel Chetwynd about his POW experiences at the real-life Hanoi Hilton. |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director of photography, Mark Irwin ; editor, Penelope Shaw ; music, Jimmy Webb. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Michael Moriarty, Paul Le Mat, Jeffrey Jones, Lawrence Pressman, David Soul, Doug Savant, David Anthony Smith, John Vargas, John Diehl, James Acheson. |
Summary, etc.: | For most combat soldiers, Vietnam was a battlefield war of guns and grenades. But for thousands of American combatants, the battlefield was a dark, vermin-infested cell in a prison compound like Hoa Lo, or what the POWs called the Hanoi Hilton. Captured Navy pilot Lt. Commander Williamson knows his only defense against torture, disease and despair is an indomitable will. |
Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: R. |
System Details Note: | DVD, region 1; widescreen; Dolby Digital. |
Language Note: | English dialogue; English or French subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
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Subject: | United States. Navy Officers Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese Drama Torture Vietnam Hanoi Drama Prisoners Abuse of Vietnam Hanoi Drama |
Genre: | War films. Prison films. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Feature films. Fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Videodiscs. DVD-Video discs. |