When Hell Was in Session (1979)

★ 7.0 1h 38m IMDb
Drama
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This film describes Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's 7-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war. Held in numerous, brutal POW camps, he faced starvation, torture and terrible living conditions brought on by his North Vietnamese captors in an effort to keep communication alive between the prisoners. His wife, Jane, is also arranging a POW wives league in the U.S. in order to popularize their plight.

When Hell Was in Session

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Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook as Cmdr. Jeremiah A. Denton Died 2021 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor, television director, and writer. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show he developed...
Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint as Jane Denton Age 102 · Newark, New Jersey, USA Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American retired actress who has starred in films, on Broadway, and on television in a career spanning seven decades, she's known for bringing emotional depth...
Mako
Mako as Maj. Bai Died 2006 · Kobe, Japan Mako was born in Kobe, Japan, the son of noted children's book author and illustrator Taro Yashima. His parents moved to the United States when he was a small child. He joined them there after World W...
Ronny Cox
Ronny Cox as Maj. Frank Perrin Age 88 · Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA Daniel Ronald "Ronny" Cox (born July 23, 1938) is an American actor, singer and songwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ronny Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors...
Renne Jarrett
Renne Jarrett as Nancy Tschudy Age 80
Richard Evans
Richard Evans as Lt. Alec Vardis Died 2021 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Director Paul Krasny
Cast Hal Holbrook, Eva Marie Saint, Mako, Ronny Cox, Renne Jarrett, Richard Evans, James Hong, Tom Bower, Stephen Keep Mills, Byron Chung

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