Het is twee dagen voor het einde van de oorlog. Squadron Leader Bill Forrester is al maanden gek, volgens zijn vrienden in het leger. Hij wordt samen met een nieuwe navigator op een routinevlucht gestuurd om een vriend van hem te vervoeren.
Nee, helaas is The Purple Plain nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Writing | Eric Ambler | Screenplay |
| Directing | Robert Parrish | Director |
| Sound | Eric Boyd-Perkins | Sound Editor |
| Production | Earl St. John | Executive Producer |
| Production | John Bryan | Producer |
| Editing | Clive Donner | Editor |
| Writing | H. E. Bates | Novel |
| Production | Arthur Alcott | Production Supervisor |
| Sound | Gordon K. McCallum | Sound Recordist |
| Crew | Charles Staffell | Special Effects |
| Art | Jack Maxsted | Art Direction |
| Sound | Dudley Messenger | Sound Recordist |
| Crew | Bill Warrington | Special Effects |
| Production | Roy Goddard | Production Manager |
| Directing | David W. Orton | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Harry Miller | Sound Editor |
| Camera | Geoffrey Unsworth | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Iris Tilley | Hair Designer |
| Art | Dario Simoni | Set Dresser |
| Costume & Make-Up | Geoffrey Rodway | Makeup Designer |
| Directing | Joan Foster | Continuity |
| Sound | John Veale | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Muir Mathieson | Conductor |
| Camera | James Bawden | Camera Operator |
