Movie: King Rat (1965)
It’s been a long time since I read King Rat, but this seemed like a very subtle and well-crafted screenplay of it. Like the book Shantung Compound, this story of the prisoners of a Japanese POW camp in China uses the intense competition for scarce resources in such a place to illustrate the often harsh realities of human social and economic behavior. I can’t think of many films that make a more powerful comment on these things.
