King Rat (Columbia Pictures) (1965)

‘King Rat’ Star Power In Ace Contest Mat! Six of the internationally-famous stage and screen stars of ''King Rat" figure in the special mat illustrated here — Mat No. Expl. I, available at National Screen Service. Component elements of this mat may be used as separate |-Col. publicity mats, for planting in every daily, weekly and special-interest paper in town... and within driving range of your theatre. GEORGE SEGAL In addition, however, use these star heads in a contest worked with co-opTOM COURTENAY Starring in "King Rat." erating merchant. Individual portraits are printed on heavy stock, with full Starring in "King Rat.” credits and "collect 'em all'' instructions below, and merchant's ad on back, for giveaway at theatre, as package stuffers, mailing enclosures, etc. Store and theatre announce the stunt, pointing up fact that guest tickets will be awarded to those persons collecting a complete set of six ''King Rat'’ stars. Store's radio and television advertising should also plug the contest, as well as its newspaper advertising. SSS SS SSS SES SES SESS SESE ESSE ESS EES EB SS ESS SE SSE ES ESS ESS SES EE SS SEES ESS SE SSS ES SSS SSS SEES ES SS ESSE SESE SS = =H == H=——=== THREE OPEN-END INTERVIEWS’ ‘King Rat’ stars George Segal and John Mills! Writer-director Bryan Forbes! Open-end interviews for radio planting, with mimeographed scripts for local commentator! Order from your Columbia exchange, for radio planting with important local disc jockeys or other radio personalities! TODD ARMSTRONG Starring in "King Rat." JAMES FOX Starring in "King Rat." TV FEATURETTE "Only In the Movies," a special featurette for TV, reveals some of the behindthe-scenes activity engaged in by the "King Rat'' company filming the picture. Humorously entertaining, this "King Rat'' television featurette runs approximately 6!/, minutes. | Order your "King Rat" featurette directly from the Exploitation Dept., Columbia Pictures Corp., 711 Fifth Ave., N. Y., N. Y. 10022, giving the name of TV personality and program and the name and address of the station planning to JAMES DONALD use the material. Featurette will be shipped directly to the cooperating staJOHN MILLS Starring in "King Rat." tion from New York. Starring in "King Rat." ALL SIX STAR HEADS SHOWN ABOVE AVAILABLE ON MAT NO. EXPL. 1 The Cast The Credits 6 George Segal Written for the Screen and Directed by Bryan Forbes; Based on a novel by James Lieutenant Grey ........ Tom Courtenay Clavell; Associate Producer, Marvin Miller; Music Composed and Conducted by John Barry; Art Director, Robert Smith; Sound, James Z. Flaster, John Cox; Camera Operator, Andy Mclntyre; Assistant Director, Russell Saunders; Script Riles Sree ets Patrick O'Neal Siete Kenn Set peeroe Frank Tuttle; Make-Up Supervision, Ben Lane, : : .M.A.; Sound Supervisor, Charles J. Rice; Dubbing Editor, Roy Baker; Editor, Lt. Colonel Larkin ....... Denholm Elligtt Walter Thompson, A.C.E.; Director of PR toatantey. Burnett Suffey, A.S.C.; Peter Marlowe ................. James Fox Dr. Kennedy .................. JamesDonald — Produced by James Woolf; A Coleytown Production; A Columbia Pictures ReuC Bias Caen ae = intel Todd Armstrong __ lease. Colonel Smedley-Butler ...... John Mills Cal Jones... Sn eee Gerald Sim The Story Major McCoy .......... Leonard Rossiter Singapore's notorious Changi prison, crowded with 10,000 Allied prisoners of war, Capt. Daven... John Standing mostly British and Australian with a handful of Americans, is dominated by an ene American corporal, King, a cold-blooded wheeler-dealer who manages to keep 2k... ASME Reaeeeietee es A himself and his flunkies well-clothed and wellfed. British officers and enlisted men, Capt. Hawkins ............ John Ronane __ trying to maintain discipline under desperate circumstances, both need and deChaplain Drinkwater... HamiltonDyce _—Spise the fast-buck operator. British Flight Lieutenant Marlowe, who speaks MalayDi Josoch Tagkel 28 becomes involved in King's black market dealings; he is the only officer in Bre eine art P the camp who can see King objectively, with neither fear nor friendship. When Squadron Leader Vexley Marlowe's arm is crushed by a falling tree while he is out on a wood detail, King RR Gee je Hes Geoffrey Bayldon —_ uses his black-market money for morphine and sulfa to save the arm, and Marlowe's Tinker-bell | Reg Lye life. News of Japan's surrender, followed by the arrival of a rescue team, puts an ack ns sieeeeee ep ten ; end to the King's power. He has been cut down to size, and he leaves Changi Major Barry George Pelling Prison in what amounts to a state of shock. WOSMINAG Jie. ie Dale Ishimoto Running Time: 134 Minutes ee