The film's sets were designed by the art directors Tony Reading, Peter Scharff and Herbert Smith. Studio shooting took place at Twickenham Studios in London. The film was set in the fictional city of Kulagong, but was filmed mostly in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the Cameron Highlands. At school Edward is bullied, his grades plummet, he hallucinates. Toshirō Mifune (voice: David de Keyser) as Ambassador Kagoyama Paper Tiger follows immigrant mother Lily, who after the death of her husband is left alone to care for Edward, her teenaged son.Forgiven for this deception, Koichi is delighted to learn Bradbury will continue as his tutor. Still pursued by the terrorists a helicopter is sent in to rescue them.Īfter their escape, the film culminates with Bradbury's confession to Ambassador Kagoyama that he was a country schoolmaster during the war. They blacken their faces (but not their clothes) and escape during the night, stealing a car which Bradbury drives recklessly down the zig zag mountain road until they crash. Despite Bradbury's frailty, bringing his military record into ever more dubious focus, the capabilities of the terrorists prove insufficient in contrast to the ingenuity of Koichi and Bradbury. While imprisoned, an ailing Bradbury reveals to Koichi that his limp is due to polio rather than to wartime service, but nevertheless the two contrive an escape from their hillside prison. The Ambassador is forced by the host country to deny the kidnapper's demands, which aim to exchange 65 political prisoners for the lives of Koichi and Bradbury. The impressionable Koichi is eager to build on Bradbury's stories.īut some painful truths are revealed after Bradbury and the boy are kidnapped by political terrorists. Bradbury describes to Koichi how he single-handedly stormed a German position in France in 1944, how he escaped repeatedly from later German internment, and after the war used his cape to help Queen Elizabeth II cross a puddle, a corruption of the Walter Raleigh aid to Queen Elizabeth in the 16th century. Embellished stories concerning his wartime service dominate the relationship of Bradbury and Koichi, including references to multiple regiments of the British Army, not all of which are real, such as the "Brigade of Guards", the Parachute Battalion and "Parachute Commandos". He informs strangers he is the son of a viscount, a Member of Parliament, and a nephew of a general, and walks with a limp and cane which he says is due to crashing in the Le Mans 24-hour race.Ī Japanese ambassador to a fictional Asian country ("Kulagong") is attracted to Bradbury's claims of receiving the Military Cross (MC) twice and the Croix de Guerre once during the Second World War and hires Bradbury to tutor to his son, Koichi (played by Kazuhito Ando).ĭespite Ambassador Kagoyama's growing skepticism, Bradbury becomes a trusted companion to the impressionable Koichi. Walter Bradbury ( David Niven) is an apparently well-educated, decorated ex-military Englishman.
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