The Bamboo Prison

A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.

Cast

Robert Francis

as MSgt. John A. Rand

Dianne Foster

as Tanya Clayton

Brian Keith

as Cpl. Brady

E.G. Marshall

as Father Francis Dolan

Jack Kelly

as Slade

Keye Luke

as Comrade-Instructor Li Ching

Jerome Courtland

as Arkansas

Earle Hyman

as Doc Jackson, medic

Richard Loo

as Commandant Hsai Tung

Murray Matheson

as Comrade Clayton

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Brian Keith is adequate here as the all-American "Brady" who is taken to a POW camp during the Korean War. It's there that encounters the ostensibly collaborative "Rand" (Robert Francis) who has befriended "Tanya" (Dianne Foster) who is, herself, married to another whose loyalties are distinctly que...

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