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King Rat (1965)

PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:24 pm
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DetailsKing Rat (1965)
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GENREDrama, War
DirectorBryan Forbes
WriterJames Clavell
ActorsGeorge Segal , Tom Courtenay , James Fox , Patrick ONeal , Denholm Elliott , James Donald , Todd Armstrong , John Mills , Gerald Sim , Leonard Rossiter , John Standing , Alan Webb , John Ronane , Sam Reese , Michael Lees
PLOTFast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.
More DetailsMPAA Rating : Approved
Country of Origin: USA
Language: English, Malay, Japanese
More Info : IMDb Link
Subtitles : YIFYsubtitles , OpenSubtitles

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied P.O.W.s, mostly British, but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a P.O.W. camp like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences, for the simple reason that there was no place for the prisoners to which to escape. Included among the prisoners is the American Corporal King (George Segal), a wheeler-dealer who has managed to established a pretty good life for himself in the camp. While most of the prisoners are near starvation and have uniforms that are in tatters, King eats well and and has crisp clean clothes to wear every day. His nemesis is Lieutenant Robin Grey (Sir Tom Courtenay), the camp Provost who attempts to keep good order and discipline. He knows that King is breaking camp rules by bartering with the Japanese, but can't quite get the evidence he needs to stop him. King soon forms a friendship with Lieutenant Peter Marlowe (James Fox), an upper class British officer who is fascinated with King's style and no-rules approach to life. As the story develops, it reveals the hypocrisy of the British class system and for King, the fact that his position in Changi's "society" is tenuous as best.

[IMDb Code] : tt0059358 0059358

[Genres] : GenreDrama, GenreWar

[Also Known As] : King Rat, El caudillo de los desalmados, King Rat, Rei de um Inferno, Цар Плъх, King Rat, Un caïd, - man kaldte ham King, Fangelejren Changi, Kuningasrotta, Un Caïd, Ton legane... 'Vasilia', Patkánykirály, Qualcuno da odiare, Kingu Ratto, キング・ラット, El caudillo de los desalmados, Rattenkoning, Król szczurów, Rei de um Inferno, Sobolanul rege, Король крыс, King Rat, Fånglägret Changi, Ölüm kampı, King Rat, King Rat, Sie nannten ihn King

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