The Camp on Blood Island (1958)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Val Guest

Writers:

Jon Manchip White (story)
Val Guest (screenplay)

Release Date:

11 June 1958 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | History | War

Tagline:

Authenticated by the very few who survived the massacre in...

Plot:

Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion...

Plot Keywords:

Prison | Colonel | Sergeant | Prisoner Of War | Beautiful Woman

Cast

André Morell	...	Col. Lambert (as Andre Morell)
Carl Möhner	...	Piet Van Elst (as Carl Mohner)
Walter Fitzgerald	...	Cyril Beattie
Edward Underdown	...	Major Dawes
Phil Brown	...	Lt. Peter Bellamy
Barbara Shelley	...	Kate Keiller
Michael Goodliffe	...	Father Paul Anjou
Michael Gwynn	...	Tom Shields
Ronald Radd	...	Commander Yamamitsu
Marne Maitland	...	Captain Sakamura
Wolfe Morris	...	Interpreter
Richard Wordsworth	...	Dr. Robert Keiller
Mary Merrall	...	Mrs. Helen Beattie
Michael Ripper	...	Japanese driver
Edwin Richfield	...	Sergeant-Major

Runtime:

USA:81 min | West Germany:77 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

West Germany:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:X (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England, UK

Company:

Hammer Film Productions

Movie Connections:

Followed by The Secret of Blood Island (1964)

Just an OK P.O.W. flick

While not as good as the one poster comments, it is by no means as bad as the other reviewer says. Yes, there is some shoddy make-up of the Japanese guards, but if you can ignore that you will find the story itself is good enough to carry the film. A group of Allied p.o.w.s are in a camp controlled by a less than friendly commander. He shoots prisoners for sport and works the rest to death in a local mine. He has also let it be known that if Japan loses the war he will kill all the prisoners. The p.o.w.s find out the war has ended and stage a revolt with homemade weapons and some grenades they had hidden at the bottom of a latrine. Not a world winner but an OK time-waster.

G.G.