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English. 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.
George Segal stars as Corporal King, a wheeler-dealer who uses bribery and larceny to control a Malaysian prison camp during World War II. Based on James Clavell's novel, the film explores the hypocrisy of the British class system and the friendship between King and a British officer.
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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.
Screen adaptation of James Clavell's best-selling novel about a group of English, American and Australian prisoners in a Singapore POW camp during World War II. When an American officer bribes the...
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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.
97. 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...
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King Rat. Set in a WWII Japanese POW camp, this adaptation of the James Clavell novel is about an American corporal who operates a number of lucrative rackets within the camp's confines. 319 IMDb 7.5 2 h 14 min 1965. X-Ray 18+. Drama · Military and War · Anxious · Harrowing. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $3.59. Buy. HD $14.09. More purchase.
