Given the film's pedigree--written and directed by Lionel Chetwynd, a self-described "right-wing activist", and produced by the Cannon Pictures team of schlockmeisters Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus--it really isn't as bad as one would expect it to be, certainly far above such other Vietnam-war Cannon fodder as the late and unlamented "Missing In Action" series with Chuck Norris, Cannon's fourth-string Rambo. The based-on-fact story of American POWs held in a prison camp known as the Hanoi Hilton, it has a much better cast than Cannon usually gets, and they manage to bring more life to Chetwynd's rather simplistic script than it deserves. Still, it does manage to hold your interest and Michael Moriarty, as always, gives a first-class performance. This is an important subject that deserves better treatment than it gets here, but the film is still worth a look.
Review of The Hanoi Hilton
