When Allied relief planes finally arrive they find a mere handful of survivors on either side.ĭVD-R is in English with switchable English subtitles. When the endgame becomes inevitable, the prisoners rise up against their captors in a bloody insurrection, feeling that they have nothing left to lose and the survival of a few is better than the alternative.
Van Elst is given the task of chief saboteur, while Anjou passes messages and instructions to the captives via coded sermons. Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp. With André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald, Edward Underdown. Matters are not helped by the growing suspicion that the camp harbours a collaborator in its midst. The Camp on Blood Island: Directed by Val Guest. Wiki page: Camp on Blood Island Genres: War Action Drama History Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. Lambert is forced continually to justify his at times apparently illogical and counter-productive decisions. Lambert's unilateral assumption of military authority is not universally welcomed, as other prisoners including Piet van Elst, former governor Cyril Beattie and priest Paul Anjou chafe against his quasi-dictatorial personality, obstinacy and refusal to listen to any views other than his own. Colonel Lambert, the authoritarian leader of the prisoners, deems that they must sabotage communications between the camp and the outside world and arm themselves in however makeshift a way in readiness for a final showdown. When the prisoners hear through underground sources that Japan has indeed surrendered, they mobilise themselves to try to prevent the news reaching the commandant.
As the Pacific War draws to an end, the commandant of the Blood Island prisoner-of-war camp has let it be known that should Japan surrender, he will order the massacre of the entire captive population.
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