Ronald Searle's wartime sketches of his POW experience feature in the new film
'The Railway Man' - based on Eric Lomax's account of his time on the Thai-Burma 'Death Railway'. Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky and written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the film depicts scenes of camp internment and jungle clearing straight out of Searle's sketches. In one scene Nicole Kidman playing Lomax's wife picks up a copy of Searle's 'To the Kwai and Back' and flicks through the pages.
(Thanks to Tony Rosenast & Uli Meyer)
"An article by John Connell in Strand Magazine for October 1947 dealing with a subject Searle was sadly well able to illustrate - he himself had been a Japanese POW in the Second World War. This shows the scene in a camp hospital."
From Mike Ashworth's Flickr
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2 comments:
While I was watching the film I kept waiting for a scene showing an artist drawing in the camp.
Me too! They missed a trick there, although I thought several scenes and characters were inspired directly by the drawings inc. the lead actors' spectacles which looked just like Searle's self-portrait plus some of the Japanese guards and rock-breaking scenes. Was the book even published at the time the film is set?
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