The Secret of Blood Island
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The Secret of Blood Island is a 1964 British
war film
directed by Quentin Lawrence
and starring Jack Hedley
, Barbara Shelley
and Patrick Wymark
. British Prisoners of War help a wounded female agent to escape the Japanese during the Second World
War. It was a loose sequel to the 1958 film The Camp on Blood Island
.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
war film
War film
War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...
directed by Quentin Lawrence
Quentin Lawrence
-Selected filmography:* The Trollenberg Terror * Cash on Demand * The Man Who Finally Died * We Shall See * The Secret of Blood Island...
and starring Jack Hedley
Jack Hedley
Jack Hedley is an English actor, best known for his performances on television....
, Barbara Shelley
Barbara Shelley
Barbara Shelley is an English film and television actress.She is now retired, but was at her busiest in the late 1950s and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon , Dracula, Prince of Darkness , Rasputin, the Mad Monk , andQuatermass and the Pit among her...
and Patrick Wymark
Patrick Wymark
Patrick Wymark , was a British, stage, film and television actor.-Early life:Born Patrick Carl Cheeseman in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England...
. British Prisoners of War help a wounded female agent to escape the Japanese during the Second World
Second World
The term "Second World" is a phrase used to describe those countries which are allied with or are supported by the "First World" countries . These include countries supported by the United States, such as Colombia, Israel, etc., and those supported by the former Soviet Union, also known as the the...
War. It was a loose sequel to the 1958 film The Camp on Blood Island
The Camp on Blood Island
The Camp on Blood Island is a 1958 British World War II film, directed by Val Guest for Hammer Film Productions and starring Carl Möhner, André Morrel, Edward Underdown and Walter Fitzgerald....
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Main cast
- Jack HedleyJack HedleyJack Hedley is an English actor, best known for his performances on television....
- Sergeant Crewe - Barbara ShelleyBarbara ShelleyBarbara Shelley is an English film and television actress.She is now retired, but was at her busiest in the late 1950s and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon , Dracula, Prince of Darkness , Rasputin, the Mad Monk , andQuatermass and the Pit among her...
- Elaine - Patrick WymarkPatrick WymarkPatrick Wymark , was a British, stage, film and television actor.-Early life:Born Patrick Carl Cheeseman in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England...
- Major Jocomo - Charles TingwellCharles TingwellIn 1941, aged 18, he volunteered for war service overseas with the Royal Australian Air Force. Under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, personnel from Commonwealth air forces were part of a joint training and assignment system. Consequently, Tingwell trained as a pilot in Canada during 1942...
- Major Dryden - Bill Owen - Bludgin
- Peter WelchPeter Welch (actor)Peter Welch was a British actor who appeared in various television programmes including Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Spy Trap, Softly, Softly, Doctor Who, and Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan....
- Richardson - Michael RipperMichael RipperMichael Ripper was an English character actor born in Portsmouth.He began his film career in quota quickies in the 1930s and until the late 1950s was virtually unknown; he was seldom credited. He played one of the two murderers in Richard III. Ripper became a mainstay in Hammer Film Productions...
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