It begins with a good script and is made excellent because of the cast. But someone did try and did an excellent job. In fact, it's hard to believe anyone would try in 1963. In the 'woke' Hollywood of today, a movie showing the communist North Koreans as murderous would not be produced. Suspicious of the year of this miserable film. Bendix is also smoking away in this 1963 film, but by 1964 he was dead of stomach cancer. No wonder you succumbed to kidney failure, emphysema and diabetes years later. Your line that it wouldn't hurt him must have had the American Cancer Society up in arms. O Rory, allowing a kid age 7 to puff away on cigarette was nauseating. Richard Jaeckel's role as a collaborator just didn't make much sense, but neither did this movie. Bendix plays his usual role as a tough guy with a heart of gold. They meet up with a little boy who joins forces with them after his parents are killed. Whoever thought that a war film with such a cast could be that dull? It dealt with 3 American soldiers fleeing from a North Korean prisoner camp. True that Rory Calhoun looked somewhat older, but something is terribly amiss here, and I'm not even talking about the film just yet. Bill Bendix looked just like he did in his films of the late 1940s and 1950s.

Did this film come out in 1963? I would guess the year is wrong.

Young and the brave movie