The Camp on Blood Island
1958Set 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.
Acted in
André Morell
as Col. Lambert
Carl Möhner
as Piet Van Elst
Walter Fitzgerald
as Cyril Beattie
Edward Underdown
as Major Dawes
Phil Brown
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
Barbara Shelley
as Kate Keiller
Michael Goodliffe
as Father Paul Anjou
Michael Gwynn
as Tom Shields
Ronald Radd
as Commander Yamaitsu
Marne Maitland
as Captain Sakamura
Richard Wordsworth
as Dr. Robert Keiller
Mary Merrall
as Mrs. Helen Beattie
Edwin Richfield
as Sergeant-Major
Wolfe Morris
as Interpreter
Michael Ripper
as Japanese driver
Lee Montague
as Japanese Soldier
Barry Lowe
as Cpl. Betts
Max Butterfield
as Cpl. Hallam
Liliane Sottane
as Mala
Peter Forbes-Robertson
as Lt. Thornton (as Peter Wayn)
Michael Brill
as Davis
Jack McNaughton
as 1st Prisoner
Jan Holden
as Nurse
Betty Cooper
as Woman Prisoner
Anne Ridler
as Woman Prisoner
Barbara Yu Ling
as Woman Prisoner
Grace Denbigh Russell
as Woman Prisoner
Jacqueline Curtis
as Sick Prisoner
Geoffrey Bayldon
as New Prisoner (uncredited)
Anthony Chinn
as Japanese Sentry (uncredited)
Milton Reid
as Japanese Executioner (uncredited)
Vincent Wong
as Japanese Driver (uncredited)