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Virginia McKenna
Jean Paget
Peter Finch
Joe Harman
Tran Van Khe
Captain Sugaya
Jean Anderson
Miss Horsefall
Marie Lohr
Mrs. Dudley Frost
Maureen Swanson
Ellen
Renée Houston
Ebbey
Nora Nicholson
Mrs. Frith
Eileen Moore
Mrs. Holland
John Fabian
Mr. Holland
Vincent Ball
Ben
Vu Ngoc Tuan
Captain Yanata
Kenji Takaki
Japanese Sergeant
Tim Turner
British Sergeant
Munesato Yamada
Captain Takata
Otokichi Ikeda
Kempetei Sergeant
Geoffrey Keen
Solicitor
June Shaw
Mrs Graham
Virginia Clay
Mrs Knowles
Bay White
Mrs Davies
Edwina Carroll
Fatima
Sanny Bin Hussan
Mat Amin
Margaret Eaden
Jane
Dominic Lieven
Michael Rhodes
Peter John
Timothy
Meg Buckenham
Mary Graham
Sam Kydd
Australian Driver
Russell Napier
Jack Burns
Martin Voss
Passenger
Ernest Blyth
Prisoner
Norman Morris
Prisoner
John Wilder
Prisoner
Ah Chong Choy
Malay Driver
Garard Green
Australian POW
Eric D. Henderson
Australian POW
Charles Gilliard
Prisoner
Charles Rayford

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sat May 04 2024

Virginia McKenna takes on the role as a dispossessed British colonial secretary forced into captivity/slavery and to fight for her very survival by the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1941 and who is, together with a group of similarly forsaken women, shunted around from camp to camp before finally being pretty much abandoned to the wilderness by the Japanese Army. Unusually, for many films made immediately after the war, it tries to offer some semblance of balance between conquerors and conquered. In no way does it attempt to deny or ameliorate the atrocities perpetrated on the prisoners but...