The true story of Agnes Newton Keith’s imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps from 1941 to the end of WWII.
Three Came Home 1950 HD | Drama & war film by Jean Negulesco | True Story | Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond
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The true story of Agnes Newton Keith’s imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps from 1941 to the end of WWII, with the man you love to hate – Sessue Hayakawa. Few recall that, before Valentino and Romero, Sessue was Hollywood’s first exotic foreign romantic lead
Three Came Home (1950 in film) is a post-war 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 Battle of Borneo (1941-42) in 1942, and her subsequent interment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry Keith, and with a young son to care for. Keith was initially interned at Berhala Island, Sabah near Sandakan, North Borneo (today’s Sabah) but spent most of her captivity at Batu Lintang camp at Kuching, Sarawak. The camp was liberated in September 1945.
Adapted and produced by Nunnally Johnson, directed by Jean Negulesco, the film starred Claudette Colbert in the lead role.
Plot
American-born Agnes Keith (Colbert) and her British husband (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 Tatsuji Suga (Sessue Hayakawa) 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.
Cast
- Claudette Colbert … Agnes Newton Keith
- Patric Knowles … Harry Keith
- Florence Desmond … Betty Sommers
- Sessue Hayakawa … Tatsuji Suga
- Sylvia Andrew … Henrietta
- Mark Keuning … George Keith
- Phyllis Morris … Sister Rose
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