Released:
1958-04-15

Overview:
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.

Director:
Val Guest

Runtime:
1h 21min

Genre:
War, Thriller, Drama

• 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