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King Rat is a 1965 American war film written and directed by Bryan Forbes and starring George Segal and James Fox. They play Corporal King and Flight Lieutenant Marlowe, respectively, two World War II prisoners of war in a squalid camp in Singapore. Among the supporting cast are John Mills and Tom Courtenay.
King Rat: Directed by Bryan Forbes. With George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal. Fast-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.
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- Drama, War
- Bryan Forbes
- 1965-10-27
In the engrossing, cynical, and well acted war drama King Rat (1965), George Segal plays Cpl. King, an American held captive in a WWII Japanese-run prison camp along with 10,000 other American, British and Australian POWs.
When an American officer bribes the Japanese camp commanders to provide him with better living conditions, tension arises between him and his fellow prisoners.
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- George Segal
- Bryan Forbes
- War
A black comedy about a U.S. Army corporal who runs a black market in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore during World War II. He befriends a British officer who challenges his morality and his survival skills.
Find out who starred in and worked on the 1965 war film King Rat, based on a novel by James Clavell. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
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Oscar®- nominee George Segal (1967, Best Supporting Actor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) became a star with his performance in this epic WWII drama based on the best-selling novel by Shogun...
