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27 October 1965 (USA)
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He entered WWII a soldier... and left a King. more
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The Japanese prisoner-of-war camp Changi in Singapore, which houses Allied POWs, is a living hell. The...
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Prisoner Of War
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Japan
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Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 1 nomination
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A grimly humorous meditation on power, class, privilege and character difficult to ever forget.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | George Segal | ... | Corporal King: The American Hut |
 | Tom Courtenay | ... | Lt. Robin Grey: The Provost Staff |
| James Fox | ... | Peter Marlowe: Hut 16 |
| Patrick O'Neal | ... | Top Sgt. Max: The American Hut |
| Denholm Elliott | ... | Lt. G.D. Larkin: Hut 16 |
| James Donald | ... | Dr. Kennedy: The Hospital Staff |
| Todd Armstrong | ... | Tex: The American Hut |
 | John Mills | ... | Col. George Smedley-Taylor: The Senior Officers |
| Gerald Sim | ... | Lt. Col. Jones: The Senior Officers |
| Leonard Rossiter | ... | Maj. McCoy: Hut 16 |
| John Standing | ... | Capt. Daven: Hut 16 |
| Alan Webb | ... | Col. Brant: The Senior Officers |
| John Ronane | ... | Capt. Hawkins: Hut 16 |
| Sammy Reese | ... | Kurt: The American Hut |
| Michael Lees | ... | Stevens: The Hospital Staff |
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134 min
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Dirk Bogarde was offered the extended cameo of Smedley-Taylor.
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Boom mic visible: After Maj. McCoy and the others have been arrested for possessing a radio, and Col. Smedley-Taylor is waiting outside for news, the shadow of the boom mic being lowered is cast over the actors in the background.
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Referenced in A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine (1966)
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I saw this grainy black and white film sometime in 1967 one steamy evening in a tin hooch Army movie theatre at TSN airfield on the outskirts of Saigon. The movie was punctuated by the sounds of mortars on the perimeter and the occasional flash from an aerial flare. I never forgot it. It rang true there. So true that no-one could say a word after. We just got drunk -- as usual. I haven't talked to many others who saw this movie. It hit right in the middle of the rising tide of despair over Vietnam. And since it wasn't actually an anti-war movie, I think it went nowhere. I believe it's origin is a short novel, possibly autobiographical by J.B. Clavell, author of Tai Pan and other sagas set in the 19th C orient. No matter what George Segal has done since, I have known that he has the heart of a rat. His King was a natural ruler in a perverse state of nature -- and his fate the fate of all maverick rulers in the end. If you can find it and see it, it will take on the character of a lost dream.