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  • 1987
  • R
  • Cannon Film Distributors
  • 2 h 5 m
  • 1987
  • R
  • Cannon Film Distributors
  • 2 h 5 m
The Hanoi Hilton

Summary A drama focusing on the suffering, torture, and brutal treatment the American P.O.W.s had to deal with daily while in North Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison, the most infamous P.O.W. camp in Hanoi. The film focuses on the resistance the prisoners gave to their captors and the strong bonds formed by the Americans during their captivity.

Directed By: Lionel Chetwynd

Written By: Lionel Chetwynd

  • 1987
  • R
  • Cannon Film Distributors
  • 2 h 5 m
  • 1987
  • R
  • Cannon Film Distributors
  • 2 h 5 m

The Hanoi Hilton

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary A drama focusing on the suffering, torture, and brutal treatment the American P.O.W.s had to deal with daily while in North Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison, the most infamous P.O.W. camp in Hanoi. The film focuses on the resistance the prisoners gave to their captors and the strong bonds formed by the Americans during their captivity.

Directed By: Lionel Chetwynd

Written By: Lionel Chetwynd

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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This uneven but well-researched film takes a much more sober and realistic view than the Rambo-esque capers, of the hardships endured by shot-down Americans in conditions that were anything but Hilton-like.
By William Thomas FULL REVIEW
50
An earnest but clumsy tribute to the heroism of the American servicemen - mostly officers - who were captured and held prisoner by North Vietnam during the long, desperate undeclared war we now refer to simply as Vietnam.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW
40
This film is really blatant right-wing propaganda loaded with a stunning amount of racial and political stereotypes.
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38
Chetwynd's design, to show the POW plight in terms as dreary as its reality, works against the movie at almost every point. [20 May 1987, p.D8]
By Bill Cosford FULL REVIEW
30
Lionel Chetwynd has achieved the impossible -- making a Vietnam prison torture movie dull. And although his sympathy for Americans missing in action seems genuine and laudable, the film liberal-bashes so heavyhandedly it's enough to make Nixon cry "Fonda."
By Desson Thomson FULL REVIEW
20
It's just another failed movie: a loud, shallow fiasco that leaves you feeling used.
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
20
Dull and unimaginative, Chetwynd treats his characters with such reverence that they might as well be saints in striped prison pajamas, martyred for the sake of some robotic patriotism. At least, his villains stand out from the host of underdeveloped heroes. Boob journalists, a doofus peacenik actress and a Cuban goon -- Michael Russo, who seems to think he's playing a pimp on "Miami Vice" -- add the unintentional comic relief.
By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group
Release Date Mar 27, 1987
Duration 2 h 5 m
Rating R
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Tagline Platoon told only half the Vietnam story.
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