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The Purple Plain

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The Purple Plain, also known as Llanura Roja, 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 World War II, who is battling with depression after having lost his wife. [1]

46 relations: Anthony Bushell, Bernard Lee, Brenda de Banzie, British Academy Film Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Burma Campaign, Clive Donner, De Havilland Mosquito, Dorothy Alison, Eric Ambler, Fighter-bomber, Flight lieutenant, General Film Distributors, Geoffrey Unsworth, Gregory Peck, H. E. Bates, Harold Siddons, Jack McNaughton, John Bryan (art director), John Veale, Josephine Griffin, Lyndon Brook, Maurice Denham, Meiktila, Myanmar, Ne Win, Peter Arne, Ram Gopal (dancer), Robert Parrish, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force, Sigiriya, South East Asia Command, Sri Lanka, Technicolor, The Advertiser (Adelaide), The Age, The Blitz, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Palm Beach Post, The Saturday Evening Post, Thirty Comrades, Two Cities Films, United Artists, Win Min Than, Yangon.

Anthony Bushell

Anthony Arnatt Bushell (19 May 1904 – 2 April 1997) was an English film actor and director, who appeared in 56 films between 1929 and 1961.

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Bernard Lee

John Bernard Lee (10 January 190816 January 1981), known as Bernard Lee, was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven Eon-produced James Bond films.

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Brenda de Banzie

Brenda Doreen Mignon de Banzie (28 July 1909 – 5 March 1981) was a British actress of stage and screen (some sources mistakenly quote 1915 as her year of birth).

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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Burma Campaign

The Burma Campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma, South-East Asian theatre of World War II, primarily between the forces of the British Empire and China, with support from the United States, against the invading forces of Imperial Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army.

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Clive Donner

Clive Stanley Donner (21 January 1926 – 6 September 2010Ronald Bergan, The Guardian, 7 September 2010) was a British film director who was a defining part of the British New Wave, directing films such as The Caretaker, Nothing But the Best, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and What's New Pussycat?.

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De Havilland Mosquito

The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engine shoulder-winged multi-role combat aircraft.

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Dorothy Alison

Dorothy Alison (4 April 1925 – 17 January 1992) was an Australian stage, film and television actress.

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Eric Ambler

Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an influential British author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre.

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Fighter-bomber

A fighter-bomber is a fighter aircraft that has been modified, or used primarily, as a light bomber or attack aircraft.

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Flight lieutenant

Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt in the RAF and IAF; FLTLT in the RAAF and RNZAF—formerly sometimes F/L in all services) is a junior commissioned air force rank that originated in the Royal Naval Air Service and is still used in the Royal Air Force and many other countries, especially in the Commonwealth.

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General Film Distributors

General Film Distributors (GFD), later known as J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors and Rank Film Distributors Ltd., was a British film distribution company based in London.

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Geoffrey Unsworth

Geoffrey Gilyard Unsworth, OBE, BSC (26 May 1914 – 28 October 1978) was a British cinematographer who worked on nearly 90 feature films spanning over more than 40 years.

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Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor, one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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H. E. Bates

Herbert Ernest Bates, CBE (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974), better known as H.E. Bates, was an English writer and author.

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Harold Siddons

Harold Siddons (17 September 1922 – 4 November 1963) Siddons, Harold was a British film and television actor, appearing in Genevieve, The Dam Busters, Appointment in London, They Who Dare, The Purple Plain, Quatermass and the Pit, A Night To Remember and The Wrong Arm of the Law.

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Jack McNaughton

Jack McNaughton (1905–1990) was a British stage and film actor.

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John Bryan (art director)

John Bryan (12 August 1911 – 10 June 1969) was an art director and film producer.

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John Veale

John Douglas Louis Veale (15 June 1922 – 16 November 2006) was an English classical composer.

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Josephine Griffin

Josephine Griffin (13 December 1928 – 15 September 2005) was a well-known English film actress who appeared in a string of British films of the 1950s, such as The Purple Plain (1954), The Man Who Never Was (1956) and The Spanish Gardener (1956).

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Lyndon Brook

Lyndon Brook (10 April 1926 – 9 January 2004) was a British actor, on film and television.

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Maurice Denham

William Maurice Denham, OBE (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English character actor who was best known for his role as Mr Justice Steven Rawley in Porridge.

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Meiktila

Meiktila is a city in central Burma on the banks of Meiktila Lake in the Mandalay Region at the junctions of the Bagan-Taunggyi, Yangon-Mandalay and Meiktila-Myingyan highways.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

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Ne Win

Ne Win (နေဝင်း; 10 July 1910, or 14 or 24 May 1911 – 5 December 2002), sometimes known honorifically as U Ne Win was a Burmese politician and military commander.

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Peter Arne

Peter Arne (born Peter Randolph Michael Albrecht, 29 September 19181 August 1983) was a British character actor best known for various performances in British film and television.

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Ram Gopal (dancer)

Bissano Ram Gopal OBE (20 November 1912 – 12 October 2003) was an Indian dancer and choreographer who performed mostly as a soloist and toured extensively throughout his lengthy career.

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Robert Parrish

Robert R. Parrish (January 4, 1916December 4, 1995) was an American film director, editor, writer, and child actor.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Royal Canadian Air Force

The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air force of Canada.

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Sigiriya

Sigiriya or Sinhagiri (Lion Rock සීගිරිය, சிகிரியா, pronounced see-gi-ri-yə) is an ancient rock fortress located in the northern Matale District near the town of Dambulla in the Central Province, Sri Lanka.

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South East Asia Command

South East Asia Command (SEAC) was the body set up to be in overall charge of Allied operations in the South-East Asian Theatre during World War II.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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The Advertiser (Adelaide)

The Advertiser is a conservative, daily tabloid-format newspaper published in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (1952) by Pierre Boulle.

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The Palm Beach Post

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year.

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Thirty Comrades

The Thirty Comrades (ရဲဘော်သုံးကျိပ်) constituted the embryo of the modern Burmese army called the Burma Independence Army (BIA) which was formed to fight for independence from Britain.

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Two Cities Films

Two Cities Films was a British film production company.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Win Min Than

Win Min Than (ဝင်းမင်းသန်း; born 30 November 1933) is a Burmese actress.

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Yangon

Yangon (ရန်ကုန်မြို့, MLCTS rankun mrui,; formerly known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") was the capital of the Yangon Region of Myanmar, also known as Burma.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purple_Plain

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