Directed by:
Val GuestCinematography:
Jack AsherComposer:
Gerard SchurmannCast:
André Morell, Carl Möhner, Edward Underdown, Barbara Shelley, Michael Ripper, Geoffrey Bayldon, Michael Goodliffe, Lee Montague, Phil Brown, Ronald Radd (more)Plots(1)
One of Hammer's most controversial features, Val Guest's The Camp on Blood Island was a huge box-office hit, despite drawing the wrath of critics who accused the film of sensationalising and exploiting the sufferings of soldiers and civilians imprisoned and abused by the Japanese during the Second World War. Certainly, the film's brutal representation of life for Allied captives in a Malayan prisoner-of-war camp is unusually grim and graphic for the time, but is buoyed by Guest's sharp and naturalistic direction, and a terrific cast is headed by André Morell, Carl Möhner and the late, great Hammer icon Barbara Shelley. (Powerhouse Films)
(more)Cast
André Morell
UK
Best movies:
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Carl Möhner
Austria
Best movies:
Rififi (1955)
He Who Must Die (1957)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
Edward Underdown
UK
Best movies:
The Last Valley (1971)
Tarka the Otter (1979)
Thunderball (1965)
Barbara Shelley
UK
Best movies:
Village of the Damned (1960)
The Gorgon (1964)
Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
Michael Ripper
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
Richard III (1955)
The One That Got Away (1957)
Geoffrey Bayldon
UK
Best movies:
To Sir, with Love (1967)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Michael Goodliffe
UK
Best movies:
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
The One That Got Away (1957)
A Stitch in Time (1963)
Lee Montague
UK
Best movies:
Much Ado About Nothing (1984) (TV movie)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Holocaust (1978) (series)
Phil Brown
USA
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Chaplin (1992)
Ronald Radd
UK
Best movies:
The Double Man (1967)
The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
The Kremlin Letter (1970)
Mary Merrall
UK
Best movies:
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
Campbell's Kingdom (1957)
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
Marne Maitland
Best movies:
Tiger Bay (1959)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983) (TV movie)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Wolfe Morris
UK
Best movies:
Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
Walter Fitzgerald
UK
Best movies:
The Fallen Idol (1948)
San Demetrio, London (1943)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Michael Gwynn
UK
Best movies:
Cleopatra (1963)
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Edwin Richfield
UK
Best movies:
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
Jack Mcnaughton
UK
Best movies:
The Dam Busters (1955)
The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Grace Denbigh Russell
UK
Best movies:
Reach for the Sky (1956)
A Night to Remember (1958)
The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
Anthony Chinn
Guyana
Best movies:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Fifth Element (1997)
Goldfinger (1964)
Milton Reid
India
Best movies:
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
A Stitch in Time (1963)
Dr. No (1962)