The Camp On Blood Island

One of Hammer's most controversial features, Val Guest's The Camp on Blood Island was a huge box-office hit, despite drawing the wrath of critics who accused the film of sensationalising and exploiting the sufferings of soldiers and civilians imprisoned and abused by the Japanese during the Second World War. Certainly, the film's brutal representation of life for Allied captives in a Malayan prisoner-of-war camp is unusually grim and graphic for the time, but is buoyed by Guest's sharp and naturalistic direction, and a terrific cast is headed by Andr� Morell (Cash on Demand, Ben-Hur), Carl M�hner (Rififi) and the late, great Hammer icon Barbara Shelley (The Gorgon, The Shadow of the Cat).

Director: Val Guest
Producer: Anthony Hinds
Writer: Jon Manchip White
Writer: Val Guest
Music: Gerard Schurmann
Cinematographer: Jack Asher
Actor: Andre Morell
Actor: Carl Mohner
Actor: Walter Fitzgerald
Actor: Edward Underdown
Actor: Phil Brown
Actor: Barbara Shelley
Actor: Michael Goodliffe
Actor: Michael Gwynn
Actor: Ronald Radd
Actor: Marne Maitland