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.
Cast
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)
Crew
Val Guest
Director, Screenplay
Jon Manchip White
Story
Bill Lenny
Editor
Jack Asher
Director of Photography
Michael Carreras
Executive Producer
Anthony Hinds
Producer
Anthony Nelson Keys
Associate Producer
Len Harris
Camera Operator
Molly Arbuthnot
Costume Design
Henry Montsash
Hairstylist
Tom Smith
Makeup Artist
Ken Cameron
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jock May
Sound Recordist
Gerard Schurmann
Original Music Composer
Tom Money
Property Master
John Stoll
Art Direction
