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* SpecialThanks: The end credits have a list of the former [=POWs=], including UsefulNotes/JohnMcCain, who helped make the movie more realistic. Later on there's a longer list of people and organizations.
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* RockPaperScissors: In one scene, two prisoners play the game to kill time. In the first round, they both draw {{finger gun}}s, and laugh.
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* TitleIn: Used every so often to show the year and the season.
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* Room101: Room 18, where prisoners suffer ColdBloodedTorture in order to break them. It works - all the prisoners eventually break and renounce America over the prison's loudspeaker.
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* UnwillingSuspension: While being tortured, prisoners are suspended from the ceiling with ropes by their arms and wrists, leaving them with gruesome rope burns.
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''The Hanoi Hilton'' is a 1987 Vietnam War film written and directed by Lionel Chetwynd, with music by Jimmy Webb. It follows a group of American [=POWs=] and their experiences in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoa_Lo_Prison Hoa Lo]] in the 1960s and early 1970s. The prisoners maintain military rank in the face of their brutal treatment and rely on each other for strength.
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!!''The Hanoi Hilton'' contains examples of:
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Gregory (David Anthony Smith) screams when rats crawl on him. The guards punish him for making noise by beating him with a belt.
* ElectricTorture: In one scene, Gregory is electrocuted with wires attached to his nipples. The same thing happens to the other prisoners offscreen.
* RevengeByProxy: The captors attempt to break Colonel Cathcart (Lawrence Pressman) by torturing his men.
* TearsOfJoy: After a year in isolation, Williamson (Creator/MichaelMoriarty) cries when he's allowed to be with other prisoners.
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!!''The Hanoi Hilton'' contains examples of:
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Gregory (David Anthony Smith) screams when rats crawl on him. The guards punish him for making noise by beating him with a belt.
* ElectricTorture: In one scene, Gregory is electrocuted with wires attached to his nipples. The same thing happens to the other prisoners offscreen.
* RevengeByProxy: The captors attempt to break Colonel Cathcart (Lawrence Pressman) by torturing his men.
* TearsOfJoy: After a year in isolation, Williamson (Creator/MichaelMoriarty) cries when he's allowed to be with other prisoners.
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