The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
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:
Val Guest
Writer:
Val Guest
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André Morell as Col. Lambert |
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Carl Möhner as Piet Van Elst |
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Walter Fitzgerald as Cyril Beattie |
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Edward Underdown as Major Dawes |
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Phil Brown as Lt. Peter Bellamy |
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Barbara Shelley as Kate Keiller |
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Michael Goodliffe as Father Paul Anjou |
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Michael Gwynn as Tom Shields |
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Ronald Radd as Commander Yamaitsu |
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Marne Maitland as Captain Sakamura |
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Richard Wordsworth as Dr. Robert Keiller |
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Mary Merrall as Mrs. Helen Beattie |
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Edwin Richfield as Sergeant-Major |
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Wolfe Morris as Interpreter |
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Michael Ripper as Japanese driver |
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Lee Montague as Japanese Soldier |
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Barry Lowe as Cpl. Betts |
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Max Butterfield as Cpl. Hallam |
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Liliane Sottane as Mala |
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Peter Forbes-Robertson as Lt. Thornton (as Peter Wayn) |
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Michael Brill as Davis |
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Jack McNaughton as 1st Prisoner |
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Jan Holden as Nurse |
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Betty Cooper as Woman Prisoner |
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Anne Ridler as Woman Prisoner |
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Barbara Yu Ling as Woman Prisoner |
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Grace Denbigh Russell as Woman Prisoner |
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Jacqueline Curtis as Sick Prisoner |
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Geoffrey Bayldon as New Prisoner (uncredited) |
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Anthony Chinn as Japanese Sentry (uncredited) |
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Milton Reid as Japanese Executioner (uncredited) |
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Vincent Wong as Japanese Driver (uncredited) |
| Writing | Jon Manchip White | Story |
| Directing | Val Guest | Director |
| Writing | Val Guest | Screenplay |
| Sound | Gerard Schurmann | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Michael Carreras | Executive Producer |
| Production | Anthony Nelson Keys | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Jock May | Sound Recordist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Molly Arbuthnot | Costume Design |
| Sound | Ken Cameron | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Editing | Bill Lenny | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Henry Montsash | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tom Smith | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Jack Asher | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Len Harris | Camera Operator |
| Crew | Tom Money | Property Master |
| Production | Anthony Hinds | Producer |
| Art | John Stoll | Art Direction |
