| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 15, 1958 | 
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| Director: | Val Guest | 
| Writer: | Val Guest, Jon Manchip White | 
| Genres: | Drama, Thriller, War | 
| Keywords | prison, world war ii, prisoner of war, radio, british army, soldier, execution, japanese army, 1940s, plane crash, prisoner of war camp | 
| Production Companies | Hammer Film Productions | 
| Box Office | Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 | 
| Updates | Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 | 
| Name | Character | 
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| André Morell | Col. Lambert | 
| Carl Möhner | Piet Van Elst | 
| Walter Fitzgerald | Cyril Beattie | 
| Edward Underdown | Major Dawes | 
| Phil Brown | Lt. Peter Bellamy | 
| Barbara Shelley | Kate Keiller | 
| Michael Goodliffe | Father Paul Anjou | 
| Michael Gwynn | Tom Shields | 
| Ronald Radd | Commander Yamaitsu | 
| Marne Maitland | Captain Sakamura | 
| Richard Wordsworth | Dr. Robert Keiller | 
| Mary Merrall | Mrs. Helen Beattie | 
| Edwin Richfield | Sergeant-Major | 
| Wolfe Morris | Interpreter | 
| Michael Ripper | Japanese driver | 
| Lee Montague | Japanese Soldier | 
| Barry Lowe | Cpl. Betts | 
| Max Butterfield | Cpl. Hallam | 
| Liliane Sottane | Mala | 
| Peter Forbes-Robertson | Lt. Thornton (as Peter Wayn) | 
| Michael Brill | Davis | 
| Jack McNaughton | 1st Prisoner | 
| Jan Holden | Nurse | 
| Betty Cooper | Woman Prisoner | 
| Anne Ridler | Woman Prisoner | 
| Barbara Yu Ling | Woman Prisoner | 
| Grace Denbigh Russell | Woman Prisoner | 
| Jacqueline Curtis | Sick Prisoner | 
| Geoffrey Bayldon | New Prisoner (uncredited) | 
| Anthony Chinn | Japanese Sentry (uncredited) | 
| Milton Reid | Japanese Executioner (uncredited) | 
| Vincent Wong | Japanese Driver (uncredited) | 
| Name | Job | 
|---|---|
| Val Guest | Screenplay, Director | 
| Jock May | Sound Recordist | 
| Ken Cameron | Sound Re-Recording Mixer | 
| Molly Arbuthnot | Costume Design | 
| Bill Lenny | Editor | 
| John Stoll | Art Direction | 
| Len Harris | Camera Operator | 
| Tom Money | Property Master | 
| Henry Montsash | Hairstylist | 
| Tom Smith | Makeup Artist | 
| Gerard Schurmann | Original Music Composer | 
| Jon Manchip White | Story | 
| Jack Asher | Director of Photography | 
| Name | Title | 
|---|---|
| Michael Carreras | Executive Producer | 
| Anthony Nelson Keys | Associate Producer | 
| Anthony Hinds | Producer | 
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