Navy plane crashes onto the island and the pilot, Lt. Beattie, whilst delivering burial services in Latin, which the Japanese do not understand.ДЄ U.S. Anjou has been passing messages to the women via Mrs. Beattie thinks Lambert's approach is wrong, and that they should tell the Japanese. Having been forced continually to justify his at times apparently illogical and counter-productive decisions, Lambert explains the situation to some senior prisoners, including former governor Cyril Beattie, whose wife and son are in interned in the women's camp, and priest Paul Anjou.

However the other prisoners do not know of Yamamitsu's threat, or that the war is over. Lambert is the commanding officer, so he is expected to give orders. These activities lead to savage reprisals by the Japanese, with threats of worse to come. Robert Keiller to try to reach a Malay village, where partisans will be able to get a message to the allies. He arranges to sabotage the Japanese radio and sends Dr. 'Dutch', from their secret radio receiver.Д¬olonel Lambert does not inform most of the other prisoners, but decides they must prevent the Japanese from learning the truth. The news of the end of the war is known to Colonel Lambert, and former rubber planter Piet van Elst, A.K.A.

Crucially, this news has not reached the Japanese at the 'Blood Island' prisoner-of-war camp, where commandant Colonel Yamamitsu, has told senior allied officer Colonel Lambert, he will order the massacre of the entire camp, including a nearby camp for women and children if Japan surrenders. It received some contemporary allegations of going beyond the bounds of the acceptable and necessary into gratuitous sensationalism.ДЄ prequel, The Secret of Blood Island, was released in 1964.Д®mperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender to the Allies in a recorded radio address across the Empire on August 15 1945, marking the end of the war in the Pacific. On its release, the film was promoted with the tag line 'Jap War Crimes Exposed!', alongside a quote from Lord Russell of Liverpool, 'We may forgive, but we must never forget', and an image of a Japanese soldier wielding a samurai sword.ДЇrom its powerful opening sequence of a man being forced to dig his own grave before being shot dead, an intertitle follows, stating 'this is not just a story - it is based on brutal truth', The Camp on Blood Island is noted for a depiction of human cruelty and brutality which was unusually graphic for a film of its time. The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Japanese-occupied British Malaya and deals with the brutal, sadistic treatment of Allied prisoners by their captors. The Camp on Blood Island is a 1958 British World War II film, directed by Val Guest for Hammer Film Productions and starring AndrГ© Morell, Carl MГ¶hner, Edward Underdown and Walter Fitzgerald.

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