在这部昨日之敌剧情/战争片中,故事发生在二战初期的缅甸， 一队英国士兵，在队长兰福德（斯坦利贝克）的指挥下，疲惫不堪的他们正在试图通过潮湿沼泽、茂密的丛林，找回自己撤退的线路，由于他们当中伤员的负担，他们来到了一个与世隔绝的村庄希望在那里稍事休整，再次转移。
然而，这个村已被日军一支中队占领了 小日本和他们的上校，携带了一些很重要的文件。 在之后的战斗中兰福德的这一发现将对他和他带领这支队伍有深远的影响……（二战电影馆）
Cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker) and his exhausted British troops take over an enemy-held jungle village. Despite the protests of an elderly padre ('Guy Rolfe (I)') and of war correspondent Max Anderson (Leo McKern), Langford orders Sergeant McKenzie (Gordon Jackson) to shoot two innocent villagers, thereby "persuading" a Japanese informer to surrender vital information. When the Japanese recapture the village, their commander uses Langford's own desperate war-born tactics in a similar effort to extract information from the British.
