Yesterday's Enemy

A riposte to the criticisms levelled at The Camp on Blood Island, Hammer's previous war picture, released a year earlier, this stark and often savage examination of how war and conflict can corrupt otherwise good men, Val Guest's Yesterday's Enemy is one of the famed studio's most hard-hitting but underappreciated productions. It posits an impossible moral dilemma - is it ever justifiable to sacrifice a small number of innocent lives in the hope that thousands more will be saved?
Headed by the formidable Stanley Baker (Hell Drivers, Eve), Yesterday's Enemy consciously and directly opposed the overwhelmingly patriotic spirit of British war films of the period, and remains a bleak exploration of duty, survival, and the effects of war.

Director: Val Guest
Producer: Michael Carreras
Writer: Peter R. Newman
Cinematographer: Arthur Grant
Actor: Stanley Baker
Actor: Guy Rolfe
Actor: Leo McKern
Actor: Gordon Jackson
Actor: David Oxley
Actor: Richard Pasco
Actor: Russell Waters
Actor: Philip Ahn
Actor: Bryan Forbes
Actor: Wolfe Morris