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
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.
