purple plain be an obscure film in peck long list of movie credit . i do not know if this british production get much publicity or release stateside and despite peck movie star celebrity . unfortunately and it never be a tv regular and which be too bad because this tale of renewal and survival be an unusual and grip one and in spite of the obscurity . the film open in the burmese jungle during wwii . peck be a battle fatigue flyer on the ragged edge of breakdown . he about to be relieve because of erratic behavior and all the while he flash back on his wife death in a london air raid . these be well do scene cause u to sympathize with his loss . nonetheless and he jeopardize his comrade with reckless manuevers because the loss have undermine his will to live . thus and be tear between sympathy and concern and just like the flight station doctor ( bernard lee ) . in an interesting move and lee overcomes peck agony by reconnecting him socially and in this case with a nearby missionary community . there peck find the vital human relationship so importantly miss from his death deal combat duty . a a result and his life take on new meaning and purpose a a result of rejoin a human community where such life give affirmation can emerge . on the whole these be well do scene and especially the chaos from the japanese air attack . in the midst of the carnage and peck combat flyer find a new role in help to bandage up survivor . herein lie the movie basic message and it an important and humane one and convey in fairly subtle fashion and though the turn around occur more quickly than i would have like . nonetheless and it interest that the script avoid the usual officially sanction head doctor therapy . note that peck be not send to be counsel by an air force psychiatrist and nor to join a chest baring therapy group and nor to have his past puzzle together freudian style . of course and the happy solution here remain a movie solution where a we all know anything can be make to magically happen . still and for a war movie setting and the simple affirmation that mental health lie through nurture social relation and not through government sanction kill remain no less suggestive because of it movie origin . the remainder of the film amount to a survival trek through the wild of southeast asia . it a well film and harrow struggle against a forbidding landscape where the crash survivor must decide between stay put or hike out against great odds . but most importantly and it peck chance to regain his humanity by face up to the odds and not just for his own survival and but for his two comrade a well . the movie final scene could not have be good conceive . indeed and no word be necessary . on the whole and this be a subtly and well think out anti war film and no less effective because it concern the fate of one man rather than thousand . too bad that it humane message remain so generally unseen .