The Full Treatment
1960
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- Filmed near Hollywood but having the feel and casting of an overseas pic, King Rat is a grim, downbeat and often raw prison camp drama depicting the character destruction wrought by a smalltime sharpie on fellow inmates of a Japanese POW site in the final days of the Second World War pic has some fine characterizations and directions, backed by stark, realistic and therefore solid production values, which offset in part its overlength and some script softness.
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When an American officer bribes the Japanese camp commanders to provide him with better living conditions, tension arises between him and his fellow prisoners. Rent King Rat on Fandango at Home...
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- George Segal
- Bryan Forbes
- War
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King Rat from Columbia Pictures, 1965, 134 minutes, and directed by Bryan Forbes is the kind of film that delivers its message well. The nominations it received for Art Direction, and Cinematography are deserved in the way they show war-time prison camp conditions.
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.
- (5.2K)
- Drama, War
- Bryan Forbes
- 1965-10-27
Nov 23, 2015 · Based on James Clavell's first novel, King Rat tells a fictionalized version of his years in a World War II Japanese prisoner of war camp. It's a dark and cynical look at what humanity will do to survive under extreme circumstances.
Oct 4, 2002 · Burnett Guffey's Oscar-nominated cinematography is stunning: too beautiful to be true to war, yet too gritty to be Hollywood gloss. King Rat is a terribly honest and brutally realistic...
Review by Christopher Moore ★★★★ 3. Of POW war films, King Rat is the antithesis to The Great Escape. There's no whistle-along theme here, but rather a bleak, quiet desperation that fuels survival; where to be alive is to have committed sins against your comrades.
Feb 12, 2024 · Review: Bryan Forbes scripted and directed this adaptation of James Clavell’s 1962 novel , based in part on his own experiences in a POW camp. Perhaps more so than any other such film, King Rat is unrelenting in its graphic depiction of the heat, starvation, despair, craziness, lethargy, boredom, and overall sense of hopelessness pervasive in ...
