Major Campbell, who observes as regiment Colonel McLean (James Cosmo) is murdered, wants to flee the camp rather than go down in flames like his mentor.
Their different responses towards their new lives as POWs are evident immediately upon capture. Though we get to know quite a few of the prisoners, the film focuses on four protagonists - explosive Major Campbell (Robert Carlyle), spiritual Dusty (Mark Strong), egocentric Yankee Lieutenant Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland), and academic Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin). Cunningham’s film, adapted from the late Gordon’s memoirs, concentrates on the relationships among the desperate Allies, as their divergent backgrounds help them to understand their fellow prisoners. Gordon and his fellow prisoners are beaten and starved, considered the worst possible cowards by their captors (due to their own Bushido ideology of death before capture), and forced to build a railroad through thick jungles. Cunningham’s To End All Wars is based on the true story of Ernest Gordon, a proud Scottish soldier captured by the Japanese with the rest of his regiment (and a number of soldiers from a variety of countries) during the Second World War.
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