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Director
  
Quentin Lawrence

Country
  
United Kingdom

4.4/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
December 1964 (UK)

Tagline
  
Every day a man flogged to death till the secret is told!

The Secret of Blood Island is a 1964 British war film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Jack Hedley, Barbara Shelley and Patrick Wymark. According to TV Guide, the film was shot in Eastmancolor and released that way in England, but the U.S. prints were in black & white.

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Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.

Plot

British Prisoners of War help a wounded female agent to escape the Japanese during the Second World War...

Continuity

The film is a loose sequel to the 1958 film The Camp on Blood Island.

Main cast

  • Jack Hedley as Sergeant Crewe
  • Barbara Shelley as Elaine
  • Patrick Wymark as Major Jocomo
  • Charles Tingwell as Major Dryden
  • Bill Owen as Bludgin
  • Peter Welch as Richardson
  • Michael Ripper as Lieutenant Tojoko
  • Peter Welch as Richardson
  • Lee Montague as Levy
  • Edwin Richfield as OReilly
  • Glyn Houston as Berry
  • David Saire as Kempi Chief
  • Philip Latham as Captain Drake
  • Ian Whittaker as Mills
  • John Southworth as Leonard
  • Peter Craze as Red
  • Henry Davies as Taffy
  • Critical reception

    TV Guide called it "fairly silly" ; whereas the Radio Times called it "lurid but fairly enjoyable."

    References

    The Secret of Blood Island Wikipedia
    The Secret of Blood Island IMDb The Secret of Blood Island themoviedb.org