Le supplice des aveux

Titre original : The Rack

1956
Approved
1h 40m

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Paul Newman and Anne Francis in Le supplice des aveux (1956)

Legal Drama Psychological Drama Drama War

Un héros décoré de la guerre de Corée collabore inexplicablement avec l'ennemi alors qu'il est enterré dans un camp de prisonniers de guerre et passe en cour martiale.Un héros décoré de la guerre de Corée collabore inexplicablement avec l'ennemi alors qu'il est enterré dans un camp de prisonniers de guerre et passe en cour martiale.Un héros décoré de la guerre de Corée collabore inexplicablement avec l'ennemi alors qu'il est enterré dans un camp de prisonniers de guerre et passe en cour martiale.

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Anecdotes
Rod Serling took 19 months to complete the teleplay, the longest he ever spent writing a single screenplay. It also took seven re-writes to get to the final version, the most of any of his screenplays.

Gaffes
In the closing scene inside the courtroom, Capt. Miller (Lee Marvin) conspicuously comes in and sits down in a chair right next to the door, against the back wall. We see him there in a couple of close-up shots, but in several wide camera shots taken from the front of the courtroom, he is nowhere to be seen.

Citations
Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick: [Addressing the jury, presenting the closing arguments for Capt. Hall's defense] Gentlemen, I have here a document which is not very pleasant to read. It's a communiqué written by the Communists describing shortcomings they observed among certain American prisoners of war.
Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick: [Quoting from the document] "One: Many of the prisoners reveal weak loyalties to their families, their communities, and their army. Two: When left alone, they tend to feel deserted, and they underestimate their ability to survive, because they underestimate themselves."
Lt. Col. Frank Wasnick: Now, the report goes on to say that even some of our university graduates have a very dim idea of American history and of the strengths and weaknesses of American democracy and that they are virtually ignorant of Communism, because we have never taken the trouble to inform them of its nature. The Communist program of indoctrination was based on this appraisal - and succeeded, because in many cases, the appraisal was true... And now we must judge Capt. Hall. Gentlemen, if there is guilt, where does it lie? In that small number who defected under pressure, as Capt. Hall did? Or do we not share it? At least those of us who created *part* of a generation which may collapse, because we have left it uninspired, uninformed, and - as in the case of Capt. Hall - unprepared to go the limit, because he had not been given the warmth to support him along the way... And now we must judge Capt. Hall. And let us make absolutely certain, that we have had no part in his collapse. This man has proven himself in the two wars of his youth, who has been exposed to conditions of captivity, against which we have never had to test ourselves.

Autres versions
Exists in a computer-colorized version.

Connexions
Referenced in American Masters: Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (1995)

Bandes originales
The Last Time I Saw Paris
(uncredited)
Music by Jerome Kern
Hummed by Walter Pidgeon

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Addendum to part 1.

Theres a scene where Paul Newman confronts his son. It brought to mind, an experience that brings home the costs of war. 1966, I had complete my combat medic training, and was waiting for my next class, pharmacology and compounding meds.

I was loaned out to the burn center, at Brook. Army medical center, Ft Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas.

Daily planes would arrive bringing young men, pilots whose planes had crashed, soldiers, marines who were engulfed in napalm, a jellied gasoline. And by far the worst, white phosphorous grenades, with faulty fuses that at times exploded as it left the throwers hand.

What was left looked more like 150 pounds of clay, then a human. All facial features, arms, hands vaporized.

I know how dreadful this sounds....but its the reality combat soldiers face, that I believe makes them more vulnerable to coercion.

I'm 74, and if I live to 174 I'll never forget the young wives, 19-24, thrilled to finally see their husbands, only to stare wide eyed, mouthing the right words, and only when they left the room....would they drop to the ground sobbing. The reality that a part of their psyche was just as horribly disfigured.

Yes, see this movie. Know, none of the gore is in the movie, but offered to help explain the movie. One other movie you must see is, "Johnny got his gun" directed by Dalton Trumbo.

Wars aren't just pork. Not a way to pay back, the folks in your district for getting you elected. They are dirty rotten nightmares, in which our sons and daughters will be ground into hamburger. Rember how gay the mood was as the south, sent their boys off for a 2 week war. Remember the depth of their disillusion?

Fight if we must. Only if we must.