The Columbia film, The Bamboo Prison opened in Chicago on January 12, 1954 as the bottom-half of a double-bill; the top half featured Audie Murphy's Destry, from Universal. The ad reads:
Yank P.O.W,'s Tortured! brutal, ruthless brain-washing!. . . and a curvy spying cutie with the angles---bait in an infamous commie prison camp! "The Bamboo Prison"
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No review for Bamboo can be found, but a short preview was discovered:
Chicago American, January 14, 1954, p. 22, c. 3:
The co-feature is "The Bamboo Prison," behind-the-scenes story of an American GI who decided to remain in a Korean prison camp. Robert Francis, Dianna Foster and Brian Keith are starred.
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The film ran two weeks at the Roosevelt theatre on State street.
