Schindler's List
1993 · Drama · History
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Film / 1965
King Rat
Directed by
Bryan Forbes
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
The story
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
Cast
George SegalCorporal King
James FoxPeter Marlowe
Tom CourtenayGrey
Patrick O'NealMax
James DonaldDr. Kennedy
John MillsSmedley-Taylor
Denholm ElliottLarkin
Leonard RossiterMcCoy
Joe TurkelDino
Todd ArmstrongTex
Gerald SimJones
Richard DawsonWeaver
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John StandingDaven
John RonaneHawkins
Alan WebbBrant
Geoffrey BayldonVexley
Wright KingBrough
Hamilton DycePadre
Michael LeesStevens
John MerivaleFoster
Arthur MaletBlakeley
Michael StrokaMiller
Dale IshimotoYoshima
William FawcettSteinmetz
Teru ShimadaJapanese General
David FrankhamCox
John WarburtonCommandant
Reg LyeTinker Bell
John OrchardGurble
Hedley MattinglyDr Prudhomme
John BarclaySpence
Louis NeervortTorusumi
Edward AshleyProuty
Anthony FaramusPrisoner
David HavilandMasters
Laurence ConroyTownsend
Roy DuanePeterson
John LevingstonMyner
Sam ReeseKurt
Bryan ForbesRadio (Voice)
Brian GaffikinPrisoner in Hut
Mathew McCuePrisoner
George PellingMajor Barry
Mickey SimpsonFirst Sergeant Camp Liberator
Dick JohnsonPop
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