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King Rat

In a World War II Malaysian P.O.W. camp, a cunning and charismatic corporal leverages his wit and cunning to seize control and maintain a sense of order among the prisoners.

In a POW camp in Singapore, Allied prisoners, mostly British, but also a few Americans, are incarcerated after the Japanese invasion in 1942. The camp, Changi prison, has no walls or fences because escape is impossible. Among the prisoners is American Corporal King, who has established a good life, eating well and wearing clean clothes daily, unlike his starving and ragged fellow prisoners.

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Info about King Rat

Studio(s): Coleytown

Originally Released: United States, Oct 27, 1965

Production Country: United States

Genres:Drama, War