The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
April 15, 1958Release Date
The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
April 15, 1958Release Date
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André Morell
Col. Lambert
Carl Möhner
Piet Van Elst
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 Yamaitsu
Marne Maitland
Captain Sakamura
Richard Wordsworth
Dr. Robert Keiller
Mary Merrall
Mrs. Helen Beattie
Edwin Richfield
Sergeant-Major
Wolfe Morris
Interpreter
Michael Ripper
Japanese driver
Lee Montague
Japanese Soldier
Barry Lowe
Cpl. Betts
Max Butterfield
Cpl. Hallam
Liliane Sottane
Mala
Peter Forbes-Robertson
Lt. Thornton (as Peter Wayn)
Michael Brill
Davis
Jack McNaughton
1st Prisoner
Jan Holden
Nurse
Betty Cooper
Woman Prisoner
Anne Ridler
Woman Prisoner
Barbara Yu Ling
Woman Prisoner
Grace Denbigh Russell
Woman Prisoner
Jacqueline Curtis
Sick Prisoner
Geoffrey Bayldon
New Prisoner (uncredited)
Anthony Chinn
Japanese Sentry (uncredited)
Milton Reid
Japanese Executioner (uncredited)
Vincent Wong
Japanese Driver (uncredited)
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Release DateApril 15, 1958
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 21m
Content RatingNR
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The Camp on Blood Island is a 1958 British World War II film, directed by Val Guest for Hammer Film Productions and starring André Morell, Carl Möhner, Edward Underdown and Walter Fitzgerald.
The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Japanese-occupied British Malaya and deals with the brutal, sadistic treatment of Allied prisoners by their captors. On its release, the film was promoted with the tag line "Jap War Crimes Exposed!", alongside a quote from Lord Russell of Liverpool, "We may forgive, but we must never forget", and an image of a Japanese soldier wielding a samurai sword.
From its powerful opening sequence of a man being forced to dig his own grave before being shot dead, an intertitle follows, stating "this is not just a story - it is based on brutal truth", The Camp on Blood Island is noted for a depiction of human cruelty and brutality which was unusually graphic for a film of its time. It received some contemporary allegations of going beyond the bounds of the acceptable and necessary into gratuitous sensationalism.
A prequel, The Secret of Blood Island, was released in 1964.