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King Rat DVD

Unrated :: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment :: Released: 2003-05-06

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King Rat Summary No Description Available.
genre: feature Film-drama
rating: un
release Date: 6-may-2003
media Type: dvd

High on the list of best POW movies, King Rat bears some comparison to that compound over by the River Kwai... but this is an entirely more cynical exercise. In a Japanese prison camp, a brash American corporal (George Segal) runs a variety of money-making operations, much to the amazement of a young British officer (James Fox). Director Bryan Forbes, who adapted James Clavell's novel, follows different POWs through various strands of plot, each episode seemingly designed to highlight the dog-eat-dog nature of men held in close confinement. (In one pointedly black-comic sequence, it becomes man-eat-dog.) This was one of Segal's breakthrough roles, and his modern style fits the movie's anti-heroic, '60s approach. It was Oscar®-nominated for art direction and cinematography, which may sound odd for such a bleakly confined location, but the lucid starkness of the camp justifies the nods. The John Barry score, while apt, is similarly stark. --Robert Horton

King Rat DVD Techincal Details Cast: George Segal, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: Unrated
Running Time: 134 mins
UPC: 043396100558
Binding: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release Date: 2003-05-06
Region Code: 99
Specs: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Subtitled), Japanese (Subtitled), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono),