They Made the Toughest Among Them... King!
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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Cast
- George SegalCorporal King
- James FoxPeter Marlowe
- Tom CourtenayGrey
- Patrick O'NealMax
- James DonaldDr. Kennedy
- John MillsSmedley-Taylor
- Denholm ElliottLarkin
- Leonard RossiterMcCoy
- Joe TurkelDino
- Todd ArmstrongTex
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- Bryan ForbesDirector
- Bryan ForbesScreenplay
- James ClavellNovel
- Burnett GuffeyDirector of Photography
- John BarryOriginal Music Composer
- Walter ThompsonEditor
- James WoolfProducer
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