Cast overview: | |||
Stanley Baker | ... | Captain Langford | |
Guy Rolfe | ... | Padre | |
Leo McKern | ... | Max | |
Gordon Jackson | ... | Sgt. McKenzie | |
David Oxley | ... | Doctor | |
Richard Pasco | ... | 2nd Lt. Hastings | |
Philip Ahn | ... | Yamazaki | |
Bryan Forbes | ... | Dawson | |
Wolfe Morris | ... | Informer (as Wolf Morris) | |
David Lodge | ... | Perkins | |
Percy Herbert | ... | Wilson | |
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Russell Waters | ... | Brigadier |
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Barry Lowe | ... | Turner |
Burt Kwouk | ... | Japanese Soldier |
Cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker) and his exhausted British troops take over an enemy-held jungle village. Despite the protests of an elderly padre ('Guy Rolfe (I)') and of war correspondent Max Anderson (Leo McKern), Langford orders Sergeant McKenzie (Gordon Jackson) to shoot two innocent villagers, thereby "persuading" a Japanese informer to surrender vital information. When the Japanese recapture the village, their commander uses Langford's own desperate war-born tactics in a similar effort to extract information from the British. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
War for all those that do not glorify it is true hell. This movie is a document to the above statement; it feels like you are watching a play in a jungle the acting is superb the story tackles moral questions that nowadays dont seem to concern anybodyth about the hypocrisy and the utter futility of war, the fact that the action scenes are very old fashioned makes no difference to the superior quality of this production a must see for all those that want a first hand view into this hypocrisy and futility