The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
Release Date: Jun 11, 1958 Wide
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For some reason, this Hammer Studios war melodrama was singled out for constant ridicule by the Monty Python troupe. The story is set at a brutal Japanese POW camp, where sadism is a way of life (the first scene is of a hapless prisoner being forced to dig his own grave). The evil commandant (played by non-Japanese Ronald Radd) has sworn to wipe out all the inmates if Japan loses the war. The English prisoners know that this has already happened, thus they're forced to keep the news secret from
Jun 11, 1958 Wide
Columbia Pictures
Cast
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Carl Mohner
Piet Van Elst -
André Morell
Colonel Lambert -
Edward Underdown
Major Dawes -
Walter Fitzgerald
Cyril Beatie -
Michael Goodliffe
Father Anjou -
Phil Brown
Lt. Bellami -
Barbara Shelley
Kate Keiller -
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Too grim a World War II drama about a sadistic POW camp to be entertaining."
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