a pet dog is put down for killing a chicken, King has it cooked, and he and his friends secretly eat it. Although King's friends protest when they discover the origin of the meat, they ultimately relish it. The stakes are raised when they get a diamond to sell. Then the Japanese commander reads a scroll while a junior officer translates for the senior British officers, informing them that the Japanese have surrendered and the war is over. The prisoners celebrate – all except King. He realizes he is no longer the unquestioned, if unofficial, ruler of the camp. Weaver, a lone British paratrooper appears from seemingly nowhere, walks up to the prison gates and fires a revolver in the air. The guards surrender. King manages to squelch a premature attempt by resentful underling First Sergeant Max to reassert his rank and authority, but that only delays the inevitable. When Marlowe speaks to him before King's departure from the camp, King belittles their friendship, saying "you worked for me, and I paid you". The Americans are put on a truck. Marlowe rushes to say goodbye to King, but is too late, and the truck drives off. Grey remarks that it was, "our lot (the British working class) that threw Churchill out." "We'll be running things from now on," indicating that the end of the war presages the beginning of a new political order. Cast Richard Dawson appears near the end of the film as Captain Weaver, a paratrooper who is sent ahead to claim the prison from the Japanese, as the war has ended. An American sergeant (Mickey Simpson) rounds up the Americans to send them home. Awards Burnett Guffey was nominated for Academy Awards for Cinematography, and Robert Emmet Smith and Frank Tuttle for Art Direction. Reception The film has been praised for its realism and cinematography. Moreover, Segal's performance has been cited as one of the strongest of his career. However, Clavell later said "my feeling is the film failed because Forbes took away the story thread and made it a composite of character studies". Inaccuracy George Segal's character, U.S. Army Corporal King, wears the shoulder patch of the American 34th Infantry Division. That division fought in North Africa and Italy, not in the Asian or Pacific areas of operation. However, the patch might have been used (either accidentally or intentionally) because of its resemblance to the patch