- Sam Levene, The Purple Heart, 1943. Universal’s future Head of Casting tested in October for Lieutenant Wayne Greenbaum in writer-producer Darryl F Zanuck’s bitter anti-Japanese propaganda released, as New York Times critic Bosley Crowther pointed out, “close on the heels of our Government’s grim and horrifying reports of Japanese atrocities against war prisoners taken in the Philippines.”
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