Here's a weird tale, a sort of Apocalypse Now of the Second World War, as captain Nigel Havers (poorly cast) treks into Borneo's heart of darkness and discovers jungle "King" Nick Nolte, who's gone native to the strains of Basil Poledouris's score. Unsurprisingly, this militaristic nonsense is written and directed by John Milius, co-screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, who completely fails to uncover any significant resonance in his own material, as he did so superbly with The Wind and the Lion. Here, alas, he succeeds only in delivering one of the great clunkers of the 1980s, a would-be epic which helped to sink Vestron, the company that made it.

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.