# Made-for-TV Mock Prison Movie

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 13, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-for-tv-mock-prison-movie/827680 "2019-01-13T10:11:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Squire\_Of\_Gothos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_squire_of_gothos/32/4703_2.png) [@The\_Squire\_Of\_Gothos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Squire_Of_Gothos)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-for-tv-mock-prison-movie/827680/1 "2019-01-13T10:11:01Z")

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Looking for a made-for-TV war drama I saw as a child shot around the late sixties or early seventies set in the present. The plot was about a small team of US special operations soldiers training for some kind of covert mission (possibly in a hotspot like Vietnam or Middle East). The film focused on a mock prison training exercise where they were subject to confinement under guard and coercive interrogation. One of the soldiers had a Minox subminiature camera that he had to forfeit. I’ll never forget one of the acting guards picking this soldier, telling him to act like a dog referring to him as “Rover” and forcing him to bark, as the trainee soldier eventually complies after breaking down. I remember the scene was quite tense. I’d like to see this film again.

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-for-tv-mock-prison-movie/827680/2 "2019-01-13T14:45:23Z")

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The Dirty Dozen?

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**Author:** ![The\_Squire\_Of\_Gothos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_squire_of_gothos/32/4703_2.png) [@The\_Squire\_Of\_Gothos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Squire_Of_Gothos)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-for-tv-mock-prison-movie/827680/3 "2019-01-13T17:56:11Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> The Dirty Dozen?

No, it was not a WWII film, and likely made-for-TV film. Thanks anyway.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-for-tv-mock-prison-movie/827680/4 "2019-01-13T19:25:47Z")

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Was it perhaps _[Opposing Force](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091688/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_39)_? (Which I realize was made later than the OP described.)

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**Author:** ![The\_Squire\_Of\_Gothos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_squire_of_gothos/32/4703_2.png) [@The\_Squire\_Of\_Gothos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Squire_Of_Gothos)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-for-tv-mock-prison-movie/827680/5 "2019-01-13T21:53:49Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Was it perhaps _[Opposing Force](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091688/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_39)_? (Which I realize was made later than the OP described.)

Definitely not _Opposing Force_. I saw this film on TV in California in 1968 give or take a year or two.