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Yesterday's Enemy. Yesterday's Enemy is a 1959 Hammer Films British war film in MegaScope directed by Val Guest and starring Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern and Gordon Jackson set in the Burma Campaign during World War II. [1] It is based on a 1958 BBC teleplay by Peter R. Newman, who turned it into a three-act play in 1960.
A British Army Brigade HQ escapes through the jungle in Burma during World War II and faces a Japanese ambush. The commander orders brutal tactics to get information from a civilian informer, but the Japanese use the same methods against him.
Jun 25, 2021 · Yesterday's Enemy is a 1959 Hammer Films British war film in MegaScope directed by Val Guest and starring Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern and Gordon Jac...
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Yesterday's Enemy -- (Movie Clip) Your Address In Rangoon Captain Langford (Stanley Baker) with some of the more minor war-crimes he'll commit, interrogating a Burmese prisoner (Wolf Morris), in the acclaimed British WWII drama Yesterday's Enemy, 1959.
- Val Guest, John Peverall
- Stanley Baker
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted. Val Guest. Director.
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