The Camp on Blood Island (1958)

War
Thriller
Drama

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.

Cast

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

Crew

Director
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Art Direction
Camera Operator
Property Master
Hairstylist
Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Executive Producer
Associate Producer
Sound Recordist
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Costume Design