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.
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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
Barbara Shelley as Kate Keiller
Michael Goodliffe as Father Paul Anjou
Michael Gwynn as Tom Shields
Ronald Radd as Commander Yamaitsu
Marne Maitland as Captain Sakamura
Richard Wordsworth as Dr. Robert Keiller
Mary Merrall as Mrs. Helen Beattie
Edwin Richfield as Sergeant-Major
Wolfe Morris as Interpreter
Michael Ripper as Japanese driver
Lee Montague as Japanese Soldier
Barry Lowe as Cpl. Betts
Max Butterfield as Cpl. Hallam
Liliane Sottane as Mala
Peter Forbes-Robertson as Lt. Thornton (as Peter Wayn)
Michael Brill as Davis
Jack McNaughton as 1st Prisoner
Jan Holden as Nurse
Betty Cooper as Woman Prisoner
Anne Ridler as Woman Prisoner
Barbara Yu Ling as Woman Prisoner
Grace Denbigh Russell as Woman Prisoner
Jacqueline Curtis as Sick Prisoner
Geoffrey Bayldon as New Prisoner (uncredited)
Anthony Chinn as Japanese Sentry (uncredited)
Milton Reid as Japanese Executioner (uncredited)
Vincent Wong as Japanese Driver (uncredited)
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