L'Île du camp sans retour

The story

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

A André MorellCol. Lambert C Carl MöhnerPiet Van Elst W Walter FitzgeraldCyril Beattie E Edward UnderdownMajor Dawes P Phil BrownLt. Peter Bellamy B Barbara ShelleyKate Keiller M Michael GoodliffeFather Paul Anjou M Michael GwynnTom Shields R Ronald RaddCommander Yamaitsu M Marne MaitlandCaptain Sakamura R Richard WordsworthDr. Robert Keiller M Mary MerrallMrs. Helen Beattie

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E Edwin RichfieldSergeant-Major W Wolfe MorrisInterpreter M Michael RipperJapanese driver L Lee MontagueJapanese Soldier B Barry LoweCpl. Betts M Max ButterfieldCpl. Hallam L Liliane SottaneMala P Peter Forbes-RobertsonLt. Thornton (as Peter Wayn) M Michael BrillDavis J Jack McNaughton1st Prisoner J Jan HoldenNurse B Betty CooperWoman Prisoner A Anne RidlerWoman Prisoner B Barbara Yu LingWoman Prisoner G Grace Denbigh RussellWoman Prisoner J Jacqueline CurtisSick Prisoner G Geoffrey BayldonNew Prisoner (uncredited) A Anthony ChinnJapanese Sentry (uncredited) M Milton ReidJapanese Executioner (uncredited) V Vincent WongJapanese Driver (uncredited)