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This is not just a story - it is based on brutal truth
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
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 BeattieExplore the crew
- Director
- Val Guest
- Screenplay
- Val Guest
- Original Music Composer
- Gerard Schurmann
- Editor
- Bill Lenny
- Director of Photography
- Jack Asher
- Producer
- Anthony Hinds