The Secret of Blood Island

1965 British film
  • 27 April 1965 (1965-04-27) (US)
  • 13 June 1965 (1965-06-13) (UK)
Running time
84 minCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

The Secret of Blood Island is a 1965 British war film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Jack Hedley, Barbara Shelley and Patrick Wymark.[1]

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.[2]

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, wouldn’t 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."[3]

The Monthly Film Bulletin called it a "grotesquely inefficient melodrama."[4] The Guardian called it "nasty".[5]

TV Guide called the film "fairly silly".[2] The Radio Times called it "lurid but fairly enjoyable."[6]

References

  1. ^ "The Secret of Blood Island". BFI. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009.
  2. ^ a b "The Secret Of Blood Island". TVGuide.com.
  3. ^ Sheridan, Bob. "History of Hammer Part 7". Halls of Horror. No. 27. p. 43.
  4. ^ SECRET OF BLOOD ISLAND, The Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 32, Iss. 372, (Jan 1, 1965): 112.
  5. ^ Bergman in lighter vein The Guardian 28 June 1965: 4.
  6. ^ Rose Thompson. "The Secret of Blood Island". RadioTimes.

External links

  • The Secret of Blood Island at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Secret of Blood Island at Letterbox DVD
  • Secret of Blood Island at TCMDB
  • Secret of Blood Island at BFI
  • Secret of Blood Island at TCMDB


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