Great movie, great scene. Loved the book and the movie. Look at Stalag 17 next. William Holden was awesome.
King Rat is still my favorite book (Movie was great but book was "light years" more awesome.) Got me into a vast study of the POW experience throughout history.
My personal theory is that the character Peter Marlow is actually the author James Clavell (who was at Changi too)
Nice to see another reader of good literature. My best to you and yours.
What else would you recommend? I’d like to see if I missed something. I have King Rat in Hardback. I’ll read it again, it’s been enough years in between to read it again.
Edit: side note - reading that book made me both proud of and shamed of being an American. Amazing book.
Although it's not a novel & if you're interested in the topic, I'd first recommend the non-fiction "Prisoners of the Japanese" by Gavan Daws. A ripping read I almost couldn't put down.
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