Yesterday's Enemy

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"Yesterday's Enemy" is a 1959 British war film, based on a television play, that follows a morally complex British Army officer in the Burma campaign during World War II.

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Yesterday's Enemy canonical 4
Yesterday's Enemy (television play) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British war film
film
basedOn Yesterday's Enemy (television play)
linked to: Yesterday's Enemy
basedOnAuthor Peter R. Newman
castMember David Lodge
David Oxley
Gordon Jackson
Guy Rolfe
Leo McKern
Philip Ahn
Richard Pasco
Stanley Baker
Wolfe Morris
certificateUK X
cinematographyBy Arthur Grant
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
director Val Guest
discussesTheme military ethics
moral ambiguity in war
war crimes
distributor Columbia Pictures
editedBy James Needs
filmFormat black-and-white
filmingLocation Bray Studios
Surrey heathland (exterior stand-in for Burma)
genre drama film
war film
leadActor Stanley Baker
mainCharacter Captain Langford
mainCharacterOccupation British Army officer
medium cinema
musicBy Stanley Black
narrativeFocus British Army patrol behind Japanese lines
notableFor unusually bleak depiction of British conduct in war for its time
originalLanguage English
portrays British Army in Burma
Imperial Japanese Army
producer Michael Carreras
productionCompany Hammer Film Productions
releaseDate 1959-09-14
releaseYear 1959
runtimeMinutes 95
screenplayAdaptationOf BBC television play
screenwriter Peter R. Newman
settingEvent Burma campaign
settingPeriod World War II
settingPlace Burma
linked to: Myanmar
subgenre World War II film

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Stanley Baker notableWork Yesterday's Enemy
Michael Carreras notableWork Yesterday's Enemy
Sir William Stanley Baker notableWork Yesterday's Enemy
Yesterday's Enemy basedOn Yesterday's Enemy (television play)
linked to: Yesterday's Enemy