The 7th Dawn

The 7th Dawn (1964)

A STRANGE LAND SLEEPS LIKE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN - SO STILL...SO MYSTERIOUS...SO UNTOUCHED- UNTIL THE FIRST LIGHT OF DAWN AWAKENS THE PASSIONS OF MEN AND THE FURIES OF WAR!

Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.

Date of release
1964-09-02
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (22)
Runtime
2h 3m
Genres
Adventure, Drama, War
Director
Lewis Gilbert

Casting

Interesting facts

The 7th Dawn is a 1964 Technicolor drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring William Holden, Capucine and Tetsurō Tamba. The film, set during the Malayan Emergency, is based on the 1960 novel The Durian Tree by Michael Keon and was filmed on location in Malaysia.

Production

Lewis Gilbert says he was approached to direct the film by Mina Wallis with William Holden and Audrey Hepburn attached. It turned out Hepburn was not interested but Holden was. Gilbert liked the script and agreed to make it. Gilbert said that the original writer-producer Karl Tunberg felt Capucine, who was the mistress of the producer Charles K.

At one stage the film was known as The Third Road, Ten Days to Penang and also The Year of the Dragon.

The script included a nude scene for Susannah York, who did not want to do it, but on location the filmmakers insisted. She appeared in one take and her stand-in appeared in another. Photos of York shooting the scene were later published in Playboy magazine. York explained, "Someone had a long distance camera. I'd just like to forget about it. It's an unfortunate business."

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