The Rack

The Rack

1956 · 100 min · EN · NR · 6.6 (20 votes)
Dir. Arnold Laven · Starring Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon, Edmond O'Brien, Anne Francis, Lee Marvin · Music Adolph Deutsch

Paul Newman, a wonderful new star!

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Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the US after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?

VIBE

A grim, psychologically intense drama exploring the crushing weight of isolation and the moral compromises born from extreme duress. It feels like a suffocating descent into the darkest corners of the human spirit under duress.

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