King Rat
The Allied POWs were incarcerated in Changi prison, After Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942. There were not any walls or barbed-wire fences to the simple reason that there was no location for those inmates to flee . Contained among the offenders could be that the American Cpl. King, a wheeler dealer who has managed to set a fairly good life for himself in the camp. While most possess uniforms that are in tatters and of the offenders are close starvation, King eats and and it has clean clothes to put on. King soon forms a friendship with Lt. Peter Marlowe, an upperclass British officer who's interested with King's élan life-style.
Released: 1965-10-27