Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.
- guerrilla warfare
- paradise
- island
- shipwreck
- desertion
- world war ii
- infantry
- u.s. navy
- tribe
- borneo
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Gerry Lopez — Gwai
- James Fox — Col. Ferguson
- Marius Weyers — Sgt. Conklin
- John Bennett Perry — Gen. MacArthur
- Aki Aleong — Col. Mitamura
- Elan Oberon — Vivienne
- Wayne Pygram — Bren Armstrong
- Choy Chang Wing — Lian
- William Wise — Dynamite Dave
- Richard Morgan — Strech Lewis
- Michael Nissman — Gen. Sutherland
- Directed
- John Milius
- Written
- John Milius
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 79 ratings
- Studio
- Orion Pictures, Cine Location Services, David Hannay Productions, Film Plan Financing Number 1, Ruddy Morgan Productions, Southeast Asia Film Location Services Sdn. Bhd.
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
