About
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.
Theatrical
Jun 11, 1958
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Hammer Film Productions
Cast
Full credits →A
André Morell
Col. Lambert
C
Carl Möhner
Piet Van Elst
W
Walter Fitzgerald
Cyril Beattie
E
Edward Underdown
Major Dawes
P
Phil Brown
Lt. Peter Bellamy
B
Barbara Shelley
Kate Keiller
M
Michael Goodliffe
Father Paul Anjou
M
Michael Gwynn
Tom Shields
R
Ronald Radd
Commander Yamaitsu
M
Marne Maitland
Captain Sakamura
R
Richard Wordsworth
Dr. Robert Keiller
M
Mary Merrall
Mrs. Helen Beattie
E
Edwin Richfield
Sergeant-Major
W
Wolfe Morris
Interpreter
M
Michael Ripper
Japanese driver
L
Lee Montague
Japanese Soldier
B
Barry Lowe
Cpl. Betts
M
Max Butterfield
Cpl. Hallam
L
Liliane Sottane
Mala
P
Peter Forbes-Robertson
Lt. Thornton (as Peter Wayn)
