The read
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 84% of the 781 1960s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
82 audience votes
Key crew
- Bryan ForbesDirector
- John BarryOriginal Music Composer
- Bryan ForbesScreenplay
Cast
- George SegalCorporal King
- James FoxPeter Marlowe
- Tom CourtenayGrey
- Patrick O'NealMax
- James DonaldDr. Kennedy
- John MillsSmedley-Taylor
- Denholm ElliottLarkin
- Leonard RossiterMcCoy
- Joe TurkelDino
- Todd ArmstrongTex
- Gerald SimJones
- Richard DawsonWeaver
Stills
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Themes
singaporepacific warblack and white
The Best Movies of 1965
King Rat is #10 of 60
