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.
as Col. Lambert
as Piet Van Elst
as Cyril Beattie
as Major Dawes
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
as Kate Keiller
as Father Paul Anjou
as Tom Shields
as Commander Yamaitsu
as Captain Sakamura
as Dr. Robert Keiller
as Mrs. Helen Beattie
as Sergeant-Major
as Interpreter
as Japanese driver
as Japanese Soldier
as Cpl. Betts
as Cpl. Hallam
as Mala
as Lt. Thornton (as Peter Wayn)
as Davis
as 1st Prisoner
as Nurse
as Woman Prisoner
as Woman Prisoner
as Woman Prisoner
as Woman Prisoner
as Sick Prisoner
as New Prisoner (uncredited)
as Japanese Sentry (uncredited)
as Japanese Executioner (uncredited)
as Japanese Driver (uncredited)
