
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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Hammer Film Productions
Keywords
- prison
- world war ii
- prisoner of war
- british army
- radio
- soldier
- execution
- japanese army
- 1940s
- plane crash
- prisoner of war camp
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Top Cast

André Morell as Col. Lambert

Carl Möhner as Piet Van Elst

Walter Fitzgerald as Cyril Beattie

Edward Underdown as Major Dawes

Phil Brown as Lt. Peter Bellamy

Barbara Shelley as Kate Keiller

Michael Goodliffe as Father Paul Anjou

Michael Gwynn as Tom Shields
Top Crew

Val Guest · Director, Screenplay

Jon Manchip White · Story

Gerard Schurmann · Composer

Jack Asher · Cinematographer

Bill Lenny · Editor
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