The Highest Honour
The Highest Honour is a 1982 Australian/ Japanese co-production about Operation Jaywick and Operation Rimau by Z Special Unit during World War II.
Plot
During World War II, a team of Australian soldiers from Z Special Unit, including Ivan Lyon and Robert Page, successfully lead an expedition to destroy ships in Singapore harbour, Operation Jaywick. An attempt to duplicate this success, Operation Rimau, ends in disaster, with the team either killed or captured. Those soldiers who are interrogated by the Japanese in Singapore, with Page forming a friendship with Minoru Tamiya. Eventually all the Australians are convicted of war crimes and are executed.
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More details
author | Lee Robinson |
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contentLocation | Singapore |
director | Peter Maxwell |
events | Pacific War |
keywords | capture kill special unit war crimes world war ii |
musicBy | Eric Jupp |
producer | John McCallum Lee Robinson |
productionCompany | Southern International Films |
publisher | New World Pictures Seven Network Toho |
theme | war |