Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, Thailand, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
- japan
- scotland
- traitor
- world war ii
- freight train
- railway car
- teacher
- jungle
- corporal punishment
- bushido
The bill
Ciarán McMenamin
Capt. Ernest Gordon
Robert Carlyle
Major Ian Campbell
Kiefer Sutherland
Lt. Jim 'Yanker' Reardon
Mark Strong
Dusty Miller
- Yugo Saso — Takashi Nagase
- Sakae Kimura — Sgt. Ito
- James Cosmo — Col. Stuart McLean
- Masayuki Yui — Captain Noguchi
- John Gregg — Camp Doctor Coates
- Shû Nakajima — Nagatomo
- Pip Torrens — Lt. Foxworth
- James McCarthy — Norman
- Brendan Cowell — Pte. Wallace Hamilton
- Adam Sinclair — Jocko
- Winton Nicholson — Duncan
- Directed
- David L. Cunningham
- Written
- Brian Godawa
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 187 ratings
- Studio
- Argyll Film Partners, Gummshoe Productions, Integrity Partners, Pray For Rain Pictures
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