The Secret of Blood Island
4.6 /10 1 Votes4.6
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.
Contents
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
Critical reception
TV Guide called it "fairly silly" ; whereas the Radio Times called it "lurid but fairly enjoyable."
References
The Secret of Blood Island WikipediaThe Secret of Blood Island IMDb The Secret of Blood Island themoviedb.org