Cast overview: | |||
Dirk Bogarde | ... | Flight Lieutenant Michael Quinn | |
Yôko Tani | ... | 'Sabby' [Suzuki San] (as Yoko Tani) | |
Ronald Lewis | ... | Squadron Leader Fenwick | |
John Fraser | ... | Flying Officer Peter Munroe | |
Anthony Bushell | ... | The Brigadier | |
Marne Maitland | ... | Bahadur | |
Michael Medwin | ... | Flying Officer Lamb | |
Richard Leech | ... | Hobson | |
Tony Wager | ... | Moss (as Anthony Wager) | |
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Tadashi Ikeda | ... | Itsumi San |
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Heihachirô Ôkawa | ... | Lieutenant Nakamura (as Henry Okawa) |
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Yoichi Matsue | ... | Corporal Mori |
Donald Pleasence | ... | The Doctor | |
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Joy Michael | ... | First Nurse |
Avice Landone | ... | Second Nurse |
During World War II, the Japanese forces push their way into Burma and threaten to invade British India at the end of 1942. Caught in a flood of war refugees fleeing Burma, R.A.F. Flight Lieutenant Michael Quinn (Sir Dirk Bogarde) and a fellow Officer are retreating toward the Burma-India border. The disorganized column marching under the intense scorching sun runs into a Japanese ambush. Under a hail of fire, they all scatter in all directions. Quinn and his comrade head for the desert. After a few gruelling hours of walking in the infernal desert, they finally reach a British Army outpost. In 1943, Quinn is sent for a bit of rest and relaxation. He's spending his time skiing in the Indian mountains and relaxing at the New Everest Hotel where his Indian orderly, Bahadur (Marne Maitland), constantly spoils him. Fellow R.A.F. Flying Officer Peter Munroe (John Fraser) shows up at the hotel and informs Quinn that no one is leaving for Britain yet. Munroe also tells Quinn that the two of ... Written by nufs68
This was the final picture shown at the famous New York City movie palace, the Roxy, the self-exclaimed "Cathedral of the Motion Picture." The Roxy opened in 1928 amid mid-Manhatten Roaring Twenties fanfare. By the mid-1950's, the theater was showing it's age through years of neglect and declining revenues, i.e. competition from television and general flight of patrons to the suburbs. It was during the late '50's to the late '80's that the large picture palaces were vanishing to the wrecker's ball, and the Roxy fell without a whimper from the public. After showing "The Wind Cannot Read," in the spring of 1960, the Roxy was closed and demolished in three months. A famous photo exists of silent movie actress Gloria Swanson in an elegant gown posing amid the Roxy's gloomy ruins; one of her silents opened the Roxy in 1928. A tragic end to a magnificent structure, only 32 years old at the time.