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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 attempt to flee
Borneo during the
Japanese invasion in 1942, her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband, and with a young son to care for. Keith was initially interned at Berhala Island, but spent most of her captivity at
Batu Lintang camp at Kuching, Sarawak.
Adapted and produced by
Nunnally Johnson, directed by the
Romanian-born American film director
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'll fill you fully with a great respect for a heroic soul."
Plot outline
American-born Agnes Keith (Colbert) and her British husband (
Patric Knowles) attempt to flee Borneo with their young son in the wake of 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's familiar with her work, and is shown to be kind to the children even when his own family has been killed by the American bomb raids.
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