The Fall of Singapore: The Great Betrayal

Name: The Fall of Singapore: The Great Betrayal
Director: Paul Elston
Released: 2012
Duration: 59 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Tim Pigott-Smith, Jamie Lee, Robert Duncan, Pip Torrens, Johnny Greig

2012 · 59 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 24 VOTES · DIR. Paul Elston

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Overview

This landmark documentary film by Paul Elston tells the incredible story of how it was the British who gave the Japanese the knowhow to take out Pearl Harbor and capture Singapore in the World War 2. For 19 years before the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the Japanese, British officers were spying for Japan. Worse still, the Japanese had infiltrated the very heart of the British establishment - through a mole who was a peer of the realm known to Churchill himself.

Dialogue Timeline — 906 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:07 Japanese troops invaded the British colony of Malaya.

00:02:33 Naval airpower

00:04:58 and probably one of the most experienced British officers

00:07:47 They were in luck.

00:10:16 he's part of a revolutionary element almost within the Royal Navy.

00:13:15 This is about destroying capital ships.

00:16:09 shows that he is quite unscrupulous

00:18:32 So all this is potentially in jeopardy

00:21:06 as what he would sell to us

00:23:22 Captain Toyoda is the Japanese naval attache.

00:25:24 Is that the only occasion they've been so generous?

00:27:26 He'd talked openly to foreign air attaches, one of them from Chile

00:29:37 The public law of the country is entirely disregarded.

00:32:13 Semple assisting the Japanese with counter-espionage

00:35:34 The sheer number of Japanese citizens

00:38:56 'The beaches presented no difficulty to any landing party.

00:41:33 'C was for carriers, D for destroyers.'

00:44:20 and clearly, if the Japanese are willing to pay

00:47:05 Later that month

00:49:21 A few days later, MI5 told Churchill

00:51:34 this time by Churchill himself.

00:54:13 sailed from Singapore to intercept the Japanese.

00:56:44 first legally, and then covertly

19:03:06 their game in the East

Cast & Characters

Tim Pigott-Smith Narrator Jamie Lee Master of Sempill Robert Duncan Director of Public Prosecutions Pip Torrens MI5 Officer Johnny Greig Policeman Simon Milton Special Branch Officer Richard J. Aldrich Self - University of Warwick Antony Best Self - London School of Economics Peter Dunstan Self - HMS Prince of Wales

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed906

Dialogue density15.4 lines / min

First line00:00:07

Final line19:03:06

Production Record

DirectorPaul Elston

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes24