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      When Hell Was in Session

      1979 1 hr. 37 min. Drama List
      Reviews In 1965, during a bombing mission in North Vietnam, U.S. Naval Cmdr. Jeremiah A. Denton (Hal Holbrook) is shot down and detained in a Viet Cong prisoner-of-war camp. Spending the next seven years of his life in subhuman conditions, Denton endures constant torture at the hands of his captors, but somehow manages to stay alive. Meanwhile, in the United States, Denton's wife, Jane (Eva Marie Saint), organizes an advocacy group consisting of wives of POWs. Read More Read Less

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      SICKS6SIX S Jeremiah Denton, the senior American officer who served as a Vietnam POW, this film tells the amazing story of almost eight years of captivity, well worth watching, if you are old to remember watching the news back then he is the airman who was filmed denouncing the USAs involvement in Vietnam, but as he read from the script he sent a message by blinking his eyes in morse code which the army intelligence read but they could not tell the American public for his safety so he was branded a traitor by the American public, it was 1974 before the public could be told about the morse code messages, but some people already knew as they could read morse code but it was kept quiet, made in 1979 it's like watching an episode of Magnum PI. when the film is in the USA, it has that cheap Hollywood feel about it, Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis In 1965, during a bombing mission in North Vietnam, U.S. Naval Cmdr. Jeremiah A. Denton (Hal Holbrook) is shot down and detained in a Viet Cong prisoner-of-war camp. Spending the next seven years of his life in subhuman conditions, Denton endures constant torture at the hands of his captors, but somehow manages to stay alive. Meanwhile, in the United States, Denton's wife, Jane (Eva Marie Saint), organizes an advocacy group consisting of wives of POWs.
      Director
      Paul Krasny
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English