• Rating:
• Genre: Action
• Movie Type: Combat Films
• Director: Val Guest
• Main Cast: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, David Oxley
• Release Year: 1959
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 95 minutes

Plot

The scene is Burma during World War II. A small British brigade led by Stanley Baker comes upon a Burmese village controlled by the Japanese. The brigade wipes out the enemy, whereupon Baker discovers that the late Japanese commandant has a coded map secreted on his person. When a Burmese prisoner who can decode the map refuses to talk, Baker orders that two peaceful villagers be executed. Baker's actions seem cruel and extreme until it becomes apparent that the enemy is twice as ruthless as he. Based on a TV play by Peter R. Newman, Yesterday's Enemy is a brutal but insightful look at the blurred line between good and evil in wartime conditions. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Stanley Baker - Capt. Langford
• Guy Rolfe - Padre
• Leo McKern - Max
• Gordon Jackson - Sgt. MacKenzie
• David Oxley - Doctor

Richard Pasco - 2nd Lieutenant Hastings; Russell Waters - Brigadier; Philip Ahn - Yamazuki; Bryan Forbes - Dawson; Wolfe Morris - Informer; Edwina Carroll - Suni; David Lodge - Perkins; Barry Lowe - Turner; Alan Keith - Bendish; Howard Williams - Davies; Timothy Bateson - Simpson; Arthur Lovegrove - Patrick; Donald Churchill - Elliott; Nicholas Brady - Orderly; Barry Steele - Brown; Barry Foster; Percy Herbert - Wilson

Credit

Michael Carreras - Producer; Alfred Cox - Editor; Arthur Grant - Cinematographer; Val Guest - Director; Don Mingaye - Art Director; James Needs - Editor; Bernard Robinson - Art Director; Peter R. Newman - Play Author