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Best Art DirectionSet Decoration BlackandWhite | 1966
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1966
1966 | Bryan
Due to the cast, director and setting, this is often assumed to be a British movie, but it was entirely filmed in California.
In interviews, Writer and Director Bryan Forbes said he had to fight the Screen Actors Guild over the most of the fifteen British Equity members he wanted to cast. The Screen Actors Guild wanted British SAG members, most of whom were fairly elderly, and not suitable for this movie.
Some of the actors had been P.O.W.s in World War II. Denholm Elliott (Lieutenant Colonel G.D. Larkin), while serving in the Royal Air Force, had been shot down and taken prisoner by the Germans.
Paul Newman and Steve McQueen were offered the chance to star in this movie. They turned it down.
James Clavell, the author of the original novel, based his book on his personal experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
"Lt. Robin Grey: Why do you think it is, Corporal, that you have so much and the rest of us so little? One day, Corporal, you're going to make a slip. All this wealth you've got isn't going to check against my list. And when you do; when that happens... I'll be ready. And you'll be in there... [points to the bamboo cage] Lt. Robin Grey: in my cage. I'm not playing at being provost marshall, you know. And I've never yet heard of a run of luck that didn't run out. And yours will - depend on it - because you're like all criminals: you're greedy. Cpl. King: Lieutenant, I'd like to point out to you that I don't have to put up with this crap from you. I'm not in your two-bit army, I'm in our two-bit army. If you're looking for something to live for, when we get out of this you come looking for me and I'll hand you your head."
"Cpl. King: How's that chair feel? Peter Marlowe: Fine. Cpl. King: Cost me eighty bucks. Peter Marlowe: Did it? Yes, well I'd never have guessed. Cpl. King: You'da said more, huh? Peter Marlowe: No, I don't think so. I don't think I'd have said anything really. I've never been a great 'chair price guesser'."
