THE CAMP ON BLOOD ISLAND; André Morell (1958 British World War II film)

Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender to the Allies in a recorded radio address across the Empire on August 15, 1945, marking the end of the Pacific War. Crucially, this news has not reached the Japanese at the "Blood Island" prisoner-of-war camp, where commandant Colonel Yamamitsu, has told senior allied officer Colonel Lambert, he will order the massacre of the entire camp, including a nearby camp for women and children, if Japan surrenders. The news of the end of the war is known to Colonel Lambert, and former rubber planter Piet van Elst (or 'Dutch') from their secret radio receiver.
Colonel Lambert does not inform most of the other prisoners, but decides they must prevent the Japanese from learning the truth. He arranges to sabotage the Japanese radio and sends Dr. Robert Keiller to try to reach a Malay village, where partisans will be able to get a message to the Allies. These activities lead to savage reprisals by the Japanese, with threats of worse to come. Lambert is the commanding officer, so he is expected to give orders. However the other prisoners do not know of Yamamitsu's threat, or that the war is over.
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[@davegauvin7234]

My Heart and Prayers go out to the Families of the Soldiers. ❤
I'm a Navy Veteran myself.

[@AnneTaylor-kk8ze]

Excellent movie, excellent script, excellent character performances

[@touco9077]

I did see this movie a long time past, it is a very good movie with absolute zero exaggeration how bad and cruel the Japanese were to captives,

[@bigrobnz]

anytime someone tells you the nuclear bombs were the wrong option show them this movie and tell them to grow up.......

[@williamdemourajose5163]

It's right. Impossible to contemporize face all this.
But the official reason for the nukes is the most appropriate: Japan would never surrender until the last man, the last shot.
It was expected to cost yet more and more american lives until that point, so the high command decided to put a drastic end to war to preserve their own men.
Right decision, although barbaric. The deaths would reach astonishing numbers, on both sides, if the war had gone on.
Sad, but pragmatically true.

[@derrickcox7761]

@@williamdemourajose5163 Barbaric is when you are not "forced" to kill, but do it out of hatred. How was using atomic weapons "barbaric"?

[@DeborahKerr-gi5ht]

Nothing justifies using nukes

[@derrickcox7761]

@@DeborahKerr-gi5ht Then nothing justifies using chemical gas, guns, bombs, knives, hands...you're kind of stupid about war, aren't you?

[@Sid-gu5qk]

The Japanese actually surrendered because Russia had invaded Manchuria in between the dropping of the bombs.

[@tenners3258]

Those ' humane Japanese' forced my Uncle Charles to work on the Burma Road.I still have the British Army notification of death papers for him,dated 1943..... "Reason of Death.........Starvation''
Sadly ,there were only 2 nuclear bombs available in 1945.

[@davegauvin7234]

Not to CORRECT You. But, You mean INHUHANE?
MY Father and Uncle Served in WW11.

[@RobertLocksley385]

@@davegauvin7234 The inverted commas were to denote sarcasm, aimed at those who like to say that the Japanese didn't deserve two atomic bombs. My Grandad was in Burma with the RAF in forward airfields sometimes only five miles from the often confused and mobile front, and he and his friends lived in constant fear of being captured by the Japanese because everyone knew how brutal they were towards their prisoners. He was grateful for the Gurkhas defending his squadron because they could be counted upon to give and receive no quarter from the enemy who knew what they were up against and rightly feared them in turn.

[@Vic-mv8iz]

I saw this in the cinema when i was 13 or 14 i remember not bad for me pushing 80

[@timfronimos459]

what is the padre saying at 15:27? I assume Latin or is it a code? hmm

[@angloaust1575]

Being a hammer movie
Horror was included
Beastly japanese beating
And starving pows
In reality many survived
The 3 and half years of
Captivity
Some japanese were more
Humane!

[@skylongskylong1982]

62% , for Europeans, and 99% for Chinese POWs .
Get a library card, and check out the library history section.

[@jimpomac]

Most of this movie was shot at a disused sand pit near Virginia Water in Surrey.

[@miked6335]

Wasn't it used for a lot of the Hammer films? Is it still there? If not, what's there now?

[@jimpomac]

@@miked6335 Probably Houses !

[@miked6335]

@@jimpomac I got off my keister and checked IMDB which lists it as Callow Hill Sandpit. Turns out it was used as a landfill which was later closed and has returned to nature.

[@jimpomac]

@@miked6335 Thanks for your efforts. I used to play there as a kid in the 50s. The back entrance was off Bakeham lane not far from Royal Holloway College.

[@peterjaniceforan3080]

🇯🇵🤔

[@philipwelsh1862]

But the English weren’t in the war were they it was the USA who did everything in the war the English propaganda was very good they were really all at home drinking tea and crumpets

[@roberthubal6278]

There was I think 50, 000 English , Indian, and Austrian soldiers captured in Singapore alone. And then on top of that.... One unit had just arrived a day before Singapore fell. Time to brush up on history. It was called The East Asia Theater during WW2

[@philipwelsh1862]

@@roberthubal6278 it was a sarcastic remark. The yanks seem to think they won both wars on their own it just gets on my nerves them twisting history. My uncle was in Burma fighting the japs in the jungle they were known as the forgotten army he said the japs were animals and had no respect for any one He hated em

[@brunodesamber5714]

A. Good. War. Movie. For. A . B. Picture. 🎞🎥🪖👍