The Camp on Blood Island
15/04/1958
1h 21m

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)
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