purple plain (M11)

World War II flick. Gregory Peck is a fighter pilot in Burma fighting the Japanese. But he is nuts. Turns out his wife of one day was killed in an air raid on London and ever since he has been flying on fumes. He risks his own life and everyone around him, because he doesn't want to live. In Burma he meets a girl and falls in love. During an air raid he protects her and she gives him a ruby stone: keep it for me, she says. When he goes out on a routine mission to deliver a man to another place, the engine catches fire and the plane crashes. Now he is a man with a real desire to get back to his girl. Two men are with him. One- a mediocrity and the other- a new man who is injured and needs to be carried. The mediocrity says they should stay put and they will be found. but gregory has enough experience to know that they will never be found. They carry (on a stretcher) the injured man and make slow progress to the river and allied territory. (they crash landed in jap territory). But the mediocrity gives up and heads back to the crash site, convinced that they should stay there to be saved. The mediocrity shoots himself. Gregory carries the injured man by himself, but then the injured man convinces him to proceed alone. Gregory proceeds alone and collapses, but hears rushing water. The river is there. He has saved himself and saves the injured man as well. He returns to his girlfriend, who is asleep. she couldn't sleep the whole time he was missing, but when news reached that he had been found, she went to sleep. he goes to her room and falls asleep next to her.

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