Capt. Robert H. Wise, who lost 90 pounds in a North Korean POW camp, served as the film's technical advisor and attested that all the torture scenes in the movie were based on actual incidents. While agencies in the Pentagon co-operated in the making of this movie, they subsequently declined to promote it. In 1954 the Pentagon was prosecuting some GIs for "collaborating" with the enemy during the Korean War, and it may have feared that the role of Dewey Martin in the movie cast doub ...[Read Story ]