Three Came Home
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| Three Came Home | |
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| Directed by | Jean Negulesco |
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| Produced by | Nunnally Johnson |
| Written by | Nunnally Johnson (Agnes Newton Keith, autobiography) |
| Starring | Claudette Colbert Patric Knowles Florence Desmond Sessue Hayakawa |
| Music by | Hugo Friedhofer |
| Cinematography | William H. Daniels Milton R. Krasner |
| Editing by | Dorothy Spencer |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
| Release date(s) | 20 February 1950 |
| Running time | 106 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Three Came Home (1950) is a wartime film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, based on the memoirs of the same name by writer Agnes Newton Keith. It depicts Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for. Keith was initially interned at Berhala Island near Sandakan, but spent most of her captivity at Batu Lintang camp at Kuching, Sarawak.
Adapted and produced by Nunnally Johnson, directed by Jean Negulesco, the film starred Claudette Colbert in the lead role. The New York Times reviewer said, "It will shock you, disturb you, tear your heart out. But it will fill you fully with a great respect for a heroic soul."
The film is now in the public domain and so is available to watch in its entirety online at no charge.[1][2][3][4][5]
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[edit] Plot outline
American-born Agnes Keith (Colbert) and her British husband (portrayed by Patric Knowles) live a cushioned colonial life in North Borneo with their young son in 1942. After the Japanese invasion, they are interned and then taken to separate prison camps, one for men, the other for women and children. Amid the brutality of the internment camp, the camp commander Lieutenant-Colonel Suga (played by Sessue Hayakawa, who in 1958 was nominated for an Oscar for a similar role in The Bridge on the River Kwai) is respectful to Mrs Keith because he is familiar with her work, and is shown to be kind to the children even when his own family has died in Hiroshima.
[edit] Cast
- Claudette Colbert ... Agnes Newton Keith
- Patric Knowles ... Harry Keith
- Florence Desmond ... Betty Sommers
- Sessue Hayakawa ... Colonel Suga
- Sylvia Andrew ... Henrietta
- Mark Keuning ... George Keith
- Phyllis Morris ... Sister Rose
- Howard Chuman ... Lieutenant Nekata
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.archive.org/details/ThreeCameHomeClaudetteColbertHankrip
- ^ http://www.profilms.com/publicdomain/index.htm
- ^ http://www.desertislandfilms.com/titles.html
- ^ http://www.buyoutfootage.com/pages/titles/blacktype/pd_featurefilms/pd_films_t.html
- ^ http://www.panamvideo.com/pg2.html
- Halliwell's Film Guide, 11th ed, 1995.
[edit] External links
- Variety review (extract from Variety's contemporary review of the film)
- Time Contemporary review of the book
- Three Came Home at the Internet Movie Database
- Three Came Home at Allmovie
- Online Version at Internet Archiver (this movie is now in the public domain)
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