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

Status

Released

Release date

April 15, 1958

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English, Japanese, Latin

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

Columbia Pictures,Hammer Film Productions

Cast

Edwin Richfield,Barbara Yu Ling,Grace Denbigh Russell,Max Butterfield,André Morell,Lee Montague,Michael Goodliffe,Peter Forbes-Robertson,Walter Fitzgerald,Barbara Shelleyand 22 more

Director

Val Guest

Writer

Val Guest,Jon Manchip White

Producer

Michael Carreras,Anthony Hinds

Cinematography

Jack Asher

Music

Gerard Schurmann

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0051444