Archive features
The Dark Road
1948
A publisher for a New York paper wants to publish a feature about the folly of crime. Nick recounts the life of Sidney from the cradle to his early grave. The story of a young boy's gradual decline through lack of parental control and peer pressure. With most of his friends petty criminals it is ...
PRODUCTIONS
The Secret of Blood Island
aka. P.O.W. : Prisoners of War [UK video release]
1965
US half-sheet poster
- Director: Quentin Lawrence
- Cast: Barbara Shelley, Jack Hedley, Patrick Wymark, Charles Tingwell, Bill Owen, Peter Welch, Michael Ripper, Lee Montague, Edwin Richfield, David Saire, Glyn Houston, Ian Whittaker, Philip Latham, John Southworth, Peter Craze, Henry Davies
Synopsis
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
Loosely a follow-up to Camp on Blood Island
Available in HD: No
Available on DVD: No
