Top cast:Wallace Reid,Milton Nobles,Dolly Nobles
Director:John Lee Hancock
Genre:Short
Region:Syria
Year:2006
Storyline:The terrified man is left hanging there to witness the death.He gazes down on the pinwheel-shaped body of the policeman flattened on the pavement.The image of the man suspended here - dangling helplessly from the rooftop and downward-looking - [his rescue is never displayed] will be the overriding, symbolic, emotional and psychological position that he will remain in throughout he rest of the film.The story of Clyde's rise and self-destructive fall as an anti-authoritarian criminal gangster is clearly depicted.Jakie threatens: "If you whip me again, I'll run away - - andnever come back!" Outside he door, Sara reacts horribly to the sounds of her beloved boy being brutally whipped in the bedroom.Shot on location in the steamy, colorful, dense tropical jungles of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the story's theme is the futility and insanity of war, and the irony of British pride, viewed through he psychological, confrontational struggle of imperialistic wills between a proud and rigid British and Japanese Colonel.