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The Secret of Blood Island
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Wikipedia article
'The Secret of Blood Island' is a 1964 British war film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Jack Hedley, Barbara Shelley and Patrick Wymark.
The film is a prequel to the 1958 film 'The Camp on Blood Island'.
Premise
British Prisoners of War help a wounded female agent, Elaine, to escape the Japanese during the Second World War.
Main cast
* Jack Hedley as Sergeant John Crewe
* Barbara Shelley as Elaine
* Patrick Wymark as Major Jocomo
* Charles Tingwell as Major Dryden
* Bill Owen as George Bludgin
* Peter Welch as Richardson
* Michael Ripper as Lieutenant Tojoko
* Peter Welch as Richardson
* Lee Montague as Levy
* Edwin Richfield as Tom O'Reilly
* Glyn Houston as Berry
* David Saire as Kempi Chief
* Philip Latham as Captain Drake
* Ian Whittaker as Mills
* John Southworth as Leonard
* Peter Craze as Red
* Henry Davies as Taffy
Production
According to TV Guide, the film was shot in Eastmancolor and released that way in Britain, but the U.S. prints were in black & white.
Reception
The film was not as well received as 'Camp of Blood Island'. Michael Ripper later said, " I
thought the story was very dodgy. I don't give a damn how hungry you are, if you haven't seen a bird in four years, or whatever it was, she'd have been stampeded, wouidnt she? Somebody must have had the strength. I don't believe the story at all, but I must admit I had a good part in it."
The 'Monthly Film Bulletin' called it a "grotesquely inefficient melodrama."SECRET OF BLOOD ISLAND, The
Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 32, Iss. 372, (Jan 1, 1965): 112. 'The Guardian' called it "nasty".Bergman in lighter vein
The Guardian 28 June 1965: 4.
'TV Guide' called the film "fairly silly". The 'Radio Times' called it "lurid but fairly enjoyable."
References
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