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.
| Directing | Robert Parrish | Director |
| Writing | Eric Ambler | Screenplay |
| Sound | Eric Boyd-Perkins | Sound Editor |
| Production | Earl St. John | Executive Producer |
| Writing | H. E. Bates | Novel |
| Production | John Bryan | Producer |
| Editing | Clive Donner | Editor |
| Sound | John Veale | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Muir Mathieson | Conductor |
| Camera | Geoffrey Unsworth | Director of Photography |
| Art | Jack Maxsted | Art Direction |
| Production | Roy Goddard | Production Manager |
| Sound | Harry Miller | Sound Editor |
| Production | Arthur Alcott | Production Supervisor |
| Directing | David W. Orton | Assistant Director |
| Camera | James Bawden | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Dudley Messenger | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Gordon K. McCallum | Sound Recordist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Geoffrey Rodway | Makeup Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Iris Tilley | Hair Designer |
| Art | Dario Simoni | Set Dresser |
| Directing | Joan Foster | Continuity |
| Crew | Bill Warrington | Special Effects |
| Crew | Charles Staffell | Special Effects |
