Academy Award? nominee Nick Nolte (1991 Best Actor, 'The Prince of Tides') stars as an escaped American POW during World War II. Lost in the jungles of Borneo, he is rescued by a tribe of headhunters who make him their king. After his village was destroyed by invaders, Nolte assembles a small army and wages an all-out war against his enemies.
Synopsis: 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.