The Camp on Blood Island (1958) on Netflix
Colonel Lambert and Piet van Elst know Japan has surrendered; the Japanese at their prisoner of war camp do not. The commandant has sworn to massacre everyone if Japan surrenders.
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In August 1945, Emperor Hirohito broadcasts Japan's surrender, but the news has not reached the Japanese garrison on Blood Island, a prisoner of war camp in occupied Malaya. The commandant, Colonel Yamamitsu, has told the senior Allied officer, Colonel Lambert, that a surrender will bring a massacre of the whole camp and of a nearby camp holding women and children. From a hidden radio receiver, Lambert and the former rubber planter Piet van Elst already know the war is over. Lambert keeps this from most of the prisoners. He arranges for the Japanese radio to be put out of action and asks Dr. Robert Keiller to reach a Malay village where partisans can carry word to the Allies. The Japanese respond with reprisals, while prisoners such as former governor Cyril Beattie press Lambert over orders that appear pointless to them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
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- The chairman of the Motion Pictures Producers' Association of Japan, Shiro Kido, who was also president of the Japanese studio Shochiku, wrote to Columbia Pictures, the film's worldwide distributor, asking that it be banned in the United States because it hurt US-Japanese relations.
- The film was allegedly based on a true story that Hammer executive Anthony Nelson Keys heard from a friend who had been a prisoner of the Japanese, and Keys passed it to colleague Michael Carreras, who commissioned John Manchip White to write the script.
- The novelisation of the script sold over two million copies and has been described as arguably the most successful piece of merchandise ever licensed by Hammer.
