The Camp on Blood Island
This is not just a story - it is based on brutal truth
1958 · 1h 21m · Approved
Drama, Thriller, War
Directed by
Val Guest
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The Camp on Blood Island
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.
Director and cast
- Val Guest Director
- 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
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