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In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
Keywords
australia
based on novel or book
world war ii
prisoner of war
japanese occupation
malaya
1940s
kuala lumpur malaysia
alice springs
Casts

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
Crews

Nevil Shute
Novel
Jack Lee
Director

W.P. Lipscomb
Screenplay
Richard Mason
Screenplay
Matyas Seiber
Original Music Composer

Geoffrey Unsworth
Director of Photography

Sidney Hayers
Editor
Alex Vetchinsky
Art Direction
Joseph Janni
Producer

Earl St. John
Executive Producer
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