Top billed cast

1. 

   Virginia McKenna

   Jean Paget

2. 

   Peter Finch

   Joe Harman

3. 

   Tran Van Khe

   Captain Sugaya

4. 

   Jean Anderson

   Miss Horsefall

5. 

   Marie Lohr

   Mrs. Dudley Frost

6. 

   Maureen Swanson

   Ellen

7. 

   Renée Houston

   Ebbey

8. 

   Nora Nicholson

   Mrs. Frith

9. 

   Eileen Moore

   Mrs. Holland

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-05-04

Virginia McKenna takes on the role as a dispossessed British colonial secretary forced into captivity/slavery and to fight for her very survival by the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1941 and who is, together with a group of similarly forsaken women, shunted around from camp to camp before finally being pretty much abandoned to the wilderness by the Japanese Army. Unusually, for many films made immediately after the war, it tries to offer some semblance of balance between conquerors and conquered. In no way does it attempt to deny or ameliorate the atrocities perpetrated on the prisoners bu...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• australia
• based on novel or book
• world war ii
• prisoner of war
• japanese occupation
• black and white
• malaya
• 1940s
• kuala lumpur malaysia
• alice springs