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Yesterday's Enemy (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
91 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1959 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Val Guest

Written By:
Peter R. Newman

Actors:
Stanley Baker ..... Capt. Langford
Guy Rolfe ..... Padre
Leo McKern ..... Max
Gordon Jackson ..... Sgt. MacKenzie
David Oxley ..... Doctor
Richard Pasco ..... 2nd Lt. Hastings
Russell Waters ..... Brigadier
Philip Ahn ..... Yamazuki
Bryan Forbes ..... Dawson
Wolfe Morris ..... The informer
Edwina Carroll ..... Suni
David Lodge ..... Perkins
Percy Herbert ..... Wilson
Barry Lowe ..... Turner
Alan Keith ..... Bendish

Synopsis:

The scene is Burma during World War II. A small British brigade led by Stanley Baker comes upon a Burmese village controlled by the Japanese. The brigade wipes out the enemy, whereupon Baker discovers that the late Japanese commandant has a coded map secreted on his person. When a Burmese prisoner who can decode the map refuses to talk, Baker orders that two peaceful villagers be executed. Baker's actions seem cruel and extreme until it becomes apparent that the enemy is twice as ruthless as he. Based on a TV play by Peter R. Newman, Yesterday's Enemy is a brutal but insightful look at the blurred line between good and evil in wartime conditions.

Cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker)and his exhausted British troops take over an enemy-held jungle village. Despite the protests of an elderly padre (Guy Rolfe) and of war correspondent Max Anderson (Leo McKern), Langford orders Sergeant McKenzie (Gordon Jackson) to shoot two innocent villagers, thereby 'persuading' a Japanese informer to surrender vital information. When the Japanese recapture the village, their commander uses Langford's own desperate war-born tactics in a similar effort to extract information from the British.

Story of a British unit isolated in the Burmese jungle, who find an important Japanese plan of battle and are in fact surrounded by Japanese soldiers.

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