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King Rat (1965)
Directed by Bryan Forbes
“They Made the Toughest Among Them... King!”
Drama, War · 2h 14m
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.
Cast
George Segal
James Fox
Tom Courtenay
Patrick O'Neal
James Donald
John Mills
Denholm Elliott
Leonard Rossiter
Joe Turkel
Todd Armstrong
Gerald Sim
Richard Dawson
Crew
- Director
- Bryan Forbes
- Screenplay
- Bryan Forbes
- Novel
- James Clavell
- Director of Photography
- Burnett Guffey
- Original Music Composer
- John Barry
- Editor
- Walter Thompson
- Producer
- James Woolf
Details
- Release date
- 1965-10-27
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Japanese, Malay
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Coleytown