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.

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
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April 15, 1958
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Drama, Thriller, War
Director