The read
It runs a compact 1h 21m.
Synopsis
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
22 audience votes
Key crew
- Val GuestDirector
- Val GuestScreenplay
- Gerard SchurmannOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- André MorellCol. Lambert
- Carl MöhnerPiet Van Elst
- Walter FitzgeraldCyril Beattie
- Edward UnderdownMajor Dawes
- Phil BrownLt. Peter Bellamy
- Barbara ShelleyKate Keiller
- Michael GoodliffeFather Paul Anjou
- Michael GwynnTom Shields
- Ronald RaddCommander Yamaitsu
- Marne MaitlandCaptain Sakamura
- Richard WordsworthDr. Robert Keiller
- Mary MerrallMrs. Helen Beattie
Stills
Themes
prisonworld war iiprisoner of warbritish armyradiosoldierexecutionjapanese army1940splane crashprisoner of war camp