", alongside a quote from Lord Russell of Liverpool, "We may forgive, but we must never forget", and an image of a Japanese soldier wielding a samurai sword.

Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender to the Allies in a recorded radio address across the Empire on August 15, 1945, marking the end of the Pacific War.

The news of the end of the war is known to Colonel Lambert, and former rubber planter Piet van Elst (or 'Dutch') from their secret radio receiver.

Having been forced continually to justify his at times apparently illogical and counter-productive decisions, Lambert explains the situation to some senior prisoners, including former governor Cyril Beattie, whose wife and son are in interned in the women's camp, and priest Paul Anjou.

Bellamy breaks into the camp, kills a Japanese officer who is with one of the female prisoners (who the women suspect is a collaborator), forcing her to take him to Mrs. Keiller.

The next day the Japanese bring Dutch's body back and take another six prisoners for execution, including Major Dawes from the officers' hut.

The film was allegedly based on a true story which Hammer executive Anthony Nelson Keys heard from a friend who had been a prisoner of the Japanese.

[2] Keys in turn told the story to colleague Michael Carreras who commissioned John Manchip White to write a script.

Finance was provided as part of a co-production deal with Columbia Pictures and shooting began at Bray Film Studios on 14 July 1957.

[3] The film was very successful at the box office, being one of the twelve most popular British movies of the year, despite sometimes hostile reviews[3] and earned rentals of $3.5 million worldwide.