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    Opening scenes, Gregory Peck inimitably spooked as RAF Commander Forrester, tangles with a flight mechanic (Jack McNaughton), then ignores orders and strikes a Burmese gun nest, his navigator Williams (Harold Siddons) catching flak, in The Purple Plain, 1955, screenplay by Eric Ambler.

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Purple Plain, The -- (Movie Clip) What Is Your...
Opening scenes, Gregory Peck inimitably spooked as RAF...
Purple Plain, The -- (Movie Clip) What Is Your Trouble?
Opening scenes, Gregory Peck inimitably spooked as RAF Commander Forrester, tangles with a flight mechanic (Jack McNaughton), then ignores orders and strikes a Burmese gun nest, his navigator Williams (Harold Siddons) catching flak, in The Purple Plain, 1955, screenplay by Eric Ambler.>
Purple Plain, The -- (Movie Clip) Rice And Rubies
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Purple Plain, The -- (Movie Clip) Rice And Rubies
RAF pilot Forrester (Gregory Peck) and doctor Harris (Bernard Lee) visit Burmese Dorothy (Mya Mya Spencer), her younger sister Anna (Win Min Than) appearing soon after, in The Purple Plain, 1955, directed by Robert Parrish.>
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