Just watched a film from 1959 by the British Army Kinema Corporation called captured. Billed in the credits as a training film but it was much more intelligent and subtle than that description makes it appear.
The setting was a camp for captured Brits in the Korean War where the inmates were subjected to interrogation (some of it very indirect and some of it well, more direct). The more direct included applying pressure through sleep deprivation and water boarding. The indirect included leveraging minimal pieces of information about the prisoners.
The film was shown in the UK by TalkingPictures TV (Freeview channel 81) under its IWM banner (Imperial War Museum).
Everything they ever tell you on those SAS applicant type programmes about capture and interrogation was covered in this film.
The one disappointment was that the wrote-up billed Wilfred Bramble (the “dirty old man” of Steptoe fame) as one of the actors and I failed to spot him.
Highly recommended if you find it available.
Bramble played the wife of the Korean camp commander...
ReplyDeleteThe film was even more subtle than you realised.
Wife!! 😆
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ReplyDeleteYou lost me there at first old fruit, but a quick exploration of the world wide library using Mr Google’s Patent Search Engine led to enlightenment. I wasn’t aware of that particular meme in the Fabulous Foursome’s cinematic oeuvre.
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