Movie · 1958
The Camp on Blood Island
Released 15 April 1958 More from 1958 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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How old were they?
Mary Merrall
as Mrs. Helen Beattie
Edward Underdown
as Major Dawes
André Morell
as Col. Lambert
Michael Goodliffe
as Father Paul Anjou
Marne Maitland
as Captain Sakamura
Milton Reid
as Japanese Executioner (uncredited)
Carl Möhner
as Piet Van Elst
Wolfe Morris
as Interpreter
Lee Montague
as Japanese Soldier
Jan Holden
as Nurse
Richard Wordsworth
as Dr. Robert Keiller
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The numbers
42years between the oldest and youngest billed
68Mary Merrall — oldest on the call sheet
26Jan Holden — youngest billed
42average age of the credited cast