FILM CATEGORY: Feature Film
SYNOPSIS Note: This film contains more violence than ANN would normally recommend. It is considered tolerable due to the subject matter, but viewer discretion is advised.
Director: David L. Cunningham
Producer: Greg Newman, Scott Walchek, Jack Hafer (II)
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Production: USA, Argyll Film Partners
Language: English/Japanese
Life is brutally harsh in the Japanese camps, as in one in Burma where POW’s, mainly from a Scottish regiment, must build part of the enemy’s supply railroad trough the ever-inhospitable jungle, and not just in terms of poor conditions, but also brutal discipline under a bushido logic which assumes Westerners to be an inferior race, in need of doggish discipline, while even for Japanese troops and Korean auxiliaries severe corporal punishment always looms. The POWs realize respect is the key, and earn some from the camp staff by taking efficient charge of the engineering challenge, and self-respect furthermore by mounting a Shakespeare play and a ‘jungle university’. Still a violent escape attempt is made, not without punishment and gruesome twist, and again as the fortune of war turns the tables.
This film poignantly conveys the power of the cross of Christ – the ability to love and forgive even in the darkest hour of human suffering.
Movie By: 20th Century Fox
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