The 7th Dawn is a 1964 Technicolor drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring William Holden, Capucine and Tetsurō Tamba.

1945 - As the Japanese occupiers in Malaya during World War II surrender, three friends who fought in the Resistance emerge from the jungle.

1953 - The Malayan communist insurgency erupts as Britain prepares to grant Malaya independence.

Ng has returned as a committed revolutionary, commanding Communist partisans attacking British economic interests.

British officials ask Ferris to convince Ng to halt his attacks until independence is granted.

When Ferris arrives there, Dhana is leading a protest of bicycle riders, demanding Trumpey rescind a new law, designed to prevent terrorist attacks, forbidding cyclists to ride at night.

If either tells them the location of Ng's camp, so the British can destroy his forces and kill him, they will pardon Dhana.

He sacrificed her, though he loved her, because he knew the death of a beloved community leader would cause protests against the British.

Ferris and Candace struggle to bring Trumpey word of Ng's death, before the morning of Dhana's scheduled execution.

Ferris says farewell to Candace and wishes her father good luck dealing with the Malayans, who have already begun protesting about Dhana's death.

The New York Times called it "a serious and ambitious novel" but said Keon was "a good reporter but a poor novelist.

Lewis Gilbert says he was approached to direct the film by Mina Wallis with William Holden and Audrey Hepburn attached.

However Feldman then fired Tunberg and had the script rewritten by Ben Hecht building up Capucine's part.

Gilbert disliked the new film and wanted to quit but says Feldman started to cry and begged him to stay.

[3] The script included a nude scene for Susannah York, who did not want to do it, but on location the filmmakers insisted.

[7] Sergio Franchi recorded the song as a 1964 single[8] and Roland Shaw provided an instrumental cover version.