King Rat DVD
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King Rat DVD

Production Year: 1965 - War - Director: Bryan Forbes - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance

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Life in a Japanese prisonor of war camp in Singapore, towards the end of World War Two. The camp's Provost Marshal vows to make trouble for Corporal King, who has spent his time...
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King Rat [1965]
Release Date: 2005-08-08, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Review of King Rat DVD by kashif123456

Advantages: The cast is remarkable
Disadvantages: nothing

...Japanese POW camp in 1965's King Rat, based on a novel by James Clavell. As Corporal King, Segal swaggers and schemes, running his little corner of the black market with help from a ragtag group of soldiers willing to do anything for a few bucks. King befriends Brit officer Peter Marlowe (James Fox), who speaks the local language and can translate for King when he sells off watches and jewelry for other desperate prisoners (for a sizable fee, of ...
...(Tom Courtenay), whose loathing of King borders on the pathological. The prisoners in King Rat aren't plotting to make a run for it, a la The Great Escape - it's established early in the film that such is not an option, as there's literally nowhere for escapees from the Singapore camp to go. The movie instead explores the day-to-day life of these beaten-down men, starving and sick, as they scrape together the best sort of life they can under the ... Read review

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King Rat DVD

Main specs

Actor(s): George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Denholm Elliott, Todd Armstrong, Patrick O'Neal, James Donald, John Mills

Director(s): Bryan Forbes

Genre: War

Classification: Parental Guidance

Production Year: 1965

Colour: Black & White

Running Time: 2 hours 9 minutes

Video Category: Feature Film

Plot: Life in a Japanese prisonor of war camp in Singapore, towards the end of World War Two. The camp's Provost Marshal vows to make trouble for Corporal King, who has spent his time collaborating with his captors.

DVD Description

Life in a Japanese prisonor of war camp in Singapore, towards the end of World War Two. The camp's Provost Marshal vows to make trouble for Corporal King, who has spent his time collaborating with his captors.

Release details

DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)

Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS

Release date: 08/08/2005

No of Discs: 1

Catalogue No: CDR 17892

Barcode: 5035822789234

Production Designer: John Barry

Music Director: John Barry

Screenwriter: Bryan Forbes

Composer: John Barry

Producer: James Woolf

Author: John Barry

Languages

Main Language: English

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