The 7th Dawn
“A STRANGE LAND SLEEPS LIKE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN - SO STILL...SO MYSTERIOUS...SO UNTOUCHED- UNTIL THE FIRST LIGHT OF DAWN AWAKENS THE PASSIONS OF MEN AND THE FURIES OF WAR!”
Lewis GilbertCast
William Holden 
Susannah York 
Capucine 
Tetsurō Tanba 
Michael Goodliffe 
Allan Cuthbertson
Credits
Written by: Michael Keon
Plot
Political and personal intrigues surround a love triangle in postwar Malaya between a planter, a Eurasian woman and her communist lover.
Sinekatalog’s take
Lewis Gilbert's drama, with William Holden, Susannah York and Capucine, is colorful and earnest, a mid-1960s colonial romance.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.4 / 10 (1,344 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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