Yesterday's Enemy

7.2
  • Genre: WarDrama
  • Run time: 95 min
  • Premiere: 1959. September 10.

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.

Discover

Stanley Baker

Captain Langford

Guy Rolfe

Padre

Gordon Jackson

Sgt. MacKenzie

David Oxley

Doctor

Richard Pasco

2nd Lieutenant Hastings

Philip Ahn

Yamazuki

Wolfe Morris

The Informer

David Lodge

Perkins

Russell Waters

Brigadier

Barry Lowe

Turner

Burt Kwouk

Japanese Soldier

Timothy Bateson

Simpson (uncredited)

Alan Keith

Bendish (uncredited)

Arthur Lovegrove

Patrick (uncredited)

Edwina Carroll

Suni (uncredited)

Brandon Brady

Orderly (uncredited)

Donald Churchill

Elliott (uncredited)

Barry Steele

Brown (uncredited)

Howard Williams

Davies (uncredited)

Art

Bernard Robinson

Production Design

Don Mingaye

Art Direction

Camera

Arthur Grant

Director of Photography

Len Harris

Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

Roy Ashton

Makeup Artist

Molly Arbuthnot

Wardrobe Master

Henry Montsash

Hairstylist

Directing

John Peverall

Assistant Director

Val Guest

Director

Beryl Booth

Continuity

Editing

James Needs

Supervising Editor

Alfred Cox

Editor

Production

T.S. Lyndon-Haynes

Production Supervisor

Sound

Buster Ambler

Sound Recordist

John Cox

Sound Supervisor

Roy Hyde

Sound Editor

Red Law

Sound Recordist

John Aldred

Sound Recordist

Writing

Peter R. Newman

Screenplay

Art

Bernard Robinson

Production Design

Don Mingaye

Art Direction

Camera

Arthur Grant

Director of Photography

Len Harris

Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

Roy Ashton

Makeup Artist

Molly Arbuthnot

Wardrobe Master

Henry Montsash

Hairstylist

Directing

John Peverall

Assistant Director

Val Guest

Director

Beryl Booth

Continuity

Editing

James Needs

Supervising Editor

Alfred Cox

Editor

Production

T.S. Lyndon-Haynes

Production Supervisor

Sound

Buster Ambler

Sound Recordist

John Cox

Sound Supervisor

Roy Hyde

Sound Editor

Red Law

Sound Recordist

John Aldred

Sound Recordist

Writing

Peter R. Newman

Screenplay