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.

"This is not just a story - it is based on brutal truth"


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Actors


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

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