The Camp on Blood Island

The Camp on Blood Island is a 1958 British World War II film, directed by Val Guest for Hammer Film Productions and starring Carl Mhner, Andr Morell, Edward Underdown and Walter Fitzgerald.

As the Pacific War draws to an end, the commandant of the Blood Island prisonerofwar camp has let it be known that should Japan surrender, he will order the massacre of the entire captive population. When the prisoners hear through underground sources that Japan has indeed surrendered, they mobilise themselves to try to prevent the news reaching the commandant. Colonel Lambert Morell, the authoritarian selfappointed leader of the prisoners, deems that they must sabotage communications between the camp and the outside world, and arm themselves in however makeshift a way in readiness for a final showdown.Lamberts unilateral assumption of military authority is not universally welcomed, as other prisoners including Piet van Elst Mhner, diplomat Cyril Beattie Fitzgerald and priest Paul Anjou Michael Goodliffe chafe against his quasidictatorial personality, obstinacy and refusal to listen to any views other than his own. Lambert is forced continually to justify his at times apparently illogical and counterproductive decisions. Matters are not helped by the growing suspicion that the camp harbours a collaborator in its midst. ........

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