The Bamboo Prison (1954)

Set in a North Korean POW camp, a newly arrived Corporal (Brian Keith) and a Sergeant (Robert Francis), a converted communist who appears to be the enemy of his fellow soldiers but is actually working for the Allies attempt to flush out a spy in the camp working for the North Koreans. Directed by Lewis Seiler (GUADALCANAL DIARY). An obvious Cold War programmer that that flirts with the "brainwashing" of American POWs, a subject that would be dealt with with more finesse 8 years later in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Here it's merely used as a teaser for a routine Cold War drama. Even then, it went over the heads of some paranoid cities that banned it because they found it sympathetic to communism. With Dianne Foster, E.G. Marshall, Jack Kelly, Murray Matheson, Leo Gordon, Richard Loo and Jerome Courtland.