The Camp on Blood Island

The Camp on Blood Island

81 mins | Drama, Action, War, History | April 15, 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.

The Camp on Blood Island

81 mins | Drama, Action, War, History | April 15, 1958

The Camp on Blood Island
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Columbia Pictures, Hammer Film Productions
Original title The Camp on Blood Island
Directors Val Guest
Writers Jon Manchip White, Val Guest

Cast

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)