Prisoners

July. 01,1975 R

Rating：

6.9

Genre：

Drama War

Keywords：

Vietnam War Prisoner Of War

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Krueger (Bramhall), a former infantry lieutenant, is imprisoned at Quai Dong, on the South China Sea, for refusing to fight. After a year at hard labor, he is told to use his Vietnamese language skills to question a Viet Cong suspect. The prisoner is drugged and tortured during the interrogation. Krueger eventually stops the torture by pretending that the prisoner has disclosed the location of a supply dump.

Peter Hooten as

Howard Hesseman as

Mark Bramhall as Lt. Krueger

Mako as Sgt. Nguyen

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Reviews

Linbeymusol

1975/07/01

Wonderful character development!

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FirstWitch

1975/07/02

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Aubrey Hackett

1975/07/03

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

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Curt

1975/07/04

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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