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.

Details

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)