Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Genre: War
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Bryan Forbes
DVD Release Date: 5/6/2003
PublishedId: 799664
UPC: 043396100558
Plot: James Clavell incorporated a few of his own experiences as a British POW in his novel {-King Rat}. Bryan Forbes' film version stars George Segal as the mastermind of all black market operations in a Japanese prison camp. He is called King Rat because of his breeding of rodents to serve as food for his emaciated fellow prisoners; the nickname also alludes to Segal's shifty personality.
British officer
James Fox helps
Segal expand his operation to include trading with the Japanese officers. Though on surface level a thoroughly selfish sort,
Segal saves the ailing
Fox's life by wangling precious antibiotics from the guards. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.
