Prisoner of Japan (1942)
An Expose of the Jap Menace!
Genre : War
Runtime : 1H 4M
Director : Arthur Ripley
Writer : Robert Chapin, Arthur Ripley
Synopsis
An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.
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