He narrowly avoids being seen by the guards after he hides the radio and returns to the living quarters. Meanwhile, in one of the sick bays, Dutchman Van Elst attempts to tune a home-made radio but hears only static. The prisoners want their long overdue mail but Lambert is more interested in what might be in the boxes. The Japanese bring Father Paul back along with a number of mail sacks and a number of boxes. At the male camp, Lambert inspects the prisoners and encourages one of them to return to the forced labour work the Japanese make the prisoners undertake. Helen and Father Paul are the only two who understand Latin so he uses this in his burial services to pass messages between the camps. Amongst the prisoners in the women's camp are Keiller's wife Kate and Beattie's wife Helen. The camp's chaplain Paul is taken by the Japanese to the women's camp to give a burial service.

Cyril Beattie also thinks Lambert should obey the Japanese as they are making things worse for themselves and those in the women and children's camp by trying to escape. It is apparent that the prisoners have destroyed a Japanese radio and that one escapee Keiller is still currently free.

Lambert leaves to confer with the other officers. Yamamitsu is angered by Lambert's remarks and warns him about prisoner behaviour and that he will make reprisals against women and children held in another nearby camp if the prisoners do not behave. He is permitted to see camp Commander Yamamitsu where, through an interpreter, he complains about the treatment of the prisoners and the conditions. Colonel Lambert argues in disgust with the Japanese Captain Sakamura at the way the prisoner has been murdered for attempting to escape. When he has finished they make him stand by it and shoot him so that he falls back into the grave he has just dug. One prisoner is being forced to dig a grave by Japanese soldiers.

A Japanese prisoner of war camp in the jungle on an island in the Malay peninsula at the end of the second world war in 1945.

Sony’s UK DVD includes a 24-page booklet with writing by Marcus Hearn.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.

Sony’s “Choice Collection” DVD-R contains no extras.

It is included in the “Hammer Volume Three: Blood & Terror” box set with The Stranglers of Bombay (1959), Yesterday’s Enemy (1959) and The Terror of the Tongs (1961).

Indicator’s Blu-ray includes a 40-page booklet with writing by Kim Newman and interview extracts with director/co-writer Val Guest.

Jekyll (1960), Cash on Demand (1961), Scream of Fear (1961), The Terror of the Tongs (1961), The Pirates of Blood River (1962), These Are the Damned (1962), Maniac (1963), The Old Dark House (1963), The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964), The Gorgon (1964), Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) and Creatures the World Forgot (1971). It is included in the “Hammer Films: The Ultimate Collection” box set with The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Snorkel (1958), The Stranglers of Bombay (1959), Yesterday’s Enemy (1959), Never Take Candy from a Stranger (1960), Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960), Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), The Two Faces of Dr.

Mill Creek’s Blu-ray contains a 12-page booklet.

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