''Prisoner of Japan'' is a 1942 American

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Arthur Ripley Arthur DeWitt Ripley (January 12, 1897 – February 13, 1961) was an American film screenwriter, editor, producer and director. Biography In 1923, he joined the Mack Sennett studio as a comedy writer. In the 1920s, he worked closely with Fr ...

and written by Robert Chapin and Arthur Ripley. The film stars Alan Baxter,

Gertrude Michael Lillian Gertrude Michael (June 1, 1911 – December 31, 1964) was an American film, stage and television actress. Biography The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Michael, she was born in Talladega, Alabama. She graduated from Talladega High sc ...

Ernst Deutsch Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian (16 September 1890 – 22 March 1969), was a Jewish Austrian actor. In 1916, his performance as the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclever's Expressionist play '' The Son'' in Dresde ...

Corinna Mura Corinna Mura (born Corinna Wall; March 16, 1910 – August 1, 1965) was a cabaret singer, actress, and diseuse. She had a small role in the classic film ''Casablanca (film), Casablanca'' as the woman playing the guitar while singing "Tango ...

, Tom Seidel and Billy Moya. The film was released on July 22, 1942, by

Producers Releasing Corporation Producers Releasing Corporation was the smallest and least prestigious of the Hollywood film studios of the 1940s. It was considered a prime example of what was called "Poverty Row": a low-rent stretch of Gower Street in Hollywood where shoest ...

Plot

Cast

* Alan Baxter as David Bowman *

as Toni Chase *

as Matsuru *

as Loti *Tom Seidel as Ens. Bailey *Billy Moya as Maui *Ray Bennett as Lt. Morgan * Dave O'Brien as U.S. Marine *Ann Staunton as Edie *

Beal Wong Beal Wong (1906-1962) was an American actor from California. Wong acted in films from 1933 to 1962. Some of the films he appeared in were ''The Big Bluff'', '' China'', ''Women in the Night'', ''Little Tokyo, U.S.A.''. He also appeared in '' The S ...

as Japanese Radio Operator *Gil Frye as U.S. Radio Operator *Kent Thurber as Cmdr. McDonald

References

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* {{Arthur Ripley 1942 films American drama films 1942 drama films Producers Releasing Corporation films Films directed by Arthur Ripley American black-and-white films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films