Harts war was an alright movie. The movie starts out with a bunch of prisoners of the Nazis they were taken into boxcars and it was really reallly really cold out. They were traveling to a German camp and during that these men were freezing of hypo-thermea of their feet because they didnt have very warm clothing let alone they didnt have good boots. I cant imagine traveling in a boxcar for a certain amount of time with not very warm clothing, i think it would be awful. They were P.O.W's in this war and when they got to this prisoner camp when they heard a plane go by overhead and it was their plane, but one thing that the guy in the plane didnt know was there were prisoners in the boxcar. The plane started shooting at the camp and accidently killed some people in the boxcars. One guy risked his life and climbed out a small window in the boxcar and went to open the boxcar door when....the planes came back and shot at the Germans but some bullets hit him, but he did get the door open and the people from the boxcar got out. The plane was coming back when they formed a line with the letters....P..O..W. to let the plane know they were good and the plane spotted them and did NOT shoot.
Later two African Americans arrive at the camp. ( Lt. Lincoln Scott and Lamar Archer). Bedford is a very racist man and later is found dead with Scott standing over his body. Their is a court hearing, and Hart is defending Scott.
Late one night, Hart notices a fellow POW acting suspiciously and follows him to a room behind the theater where the trial is taking place. There he discovers a tunnel being dug. McNamara reveals to Hart that the defense, an elaborate distraction to hide a planned escape and attack on a nearby ammunition plant which the Allies mistakenly believe to be a shoe factory. It is revealed that Bedford planted the spike in Archer's bunk, and, in return for the guards executing him for it, gave them the location of the secret radio. Also revealed was that Bedford planned to escape with forged German documents, money and clothes, likely in return for telling the Germans about McNamara's plan. McNamara had realized this and killed Bedford to prevent it.
Hart is shocked that McNamara as a senior officer would sacrifice fellow Americans. McNamara reminds Hart that they are at war, and in war sometimes one man must be sacrificed to save the lives of many. Disgusted, McNamara says that Hart knows nothing about duty. and Hart gave in to like a Level 1 interrogator after three days, whereas McNamara was tortured for a month a MONTH!
On the last day of the trial, McNamara and 34 others fake food poisoning in order to be excused from the closing arguments. They then slip down the escape tunnel. As he is about to go down, McNamara overhears Hart's closing speech. In order to save Scott, Hart announces that he killed Bedford.
Visser orders everyone out and announces that Hart will be shot there and then. After the head count is short by 35 prisoners, Visser suspects an escape plot and locates the tunnel. Now fully aware of the deception, he furiously orders everybody at the trial to be shot as well. But before the sentence is carried out, McNamara, moved by Hart's selfless sacrifice, voluntarily returns to the camp to accept responsibility. At that moment the factory blows up and the others scatter away.
Visser holds McNamara accountable and personally executes him on the spot, sparing the remaining prisoners. Hart leads the salute to McNamara's dead body. Thankfully 3 months later, the German army surrenders to the Allies and the prison camp is liberated.
This was a pretty good movie!
Source: Harts War
Pictures:
Comments