Three Came Home

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Three Came Home

1950,

1h 46m,

Drama

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Agnes Keith (Claudette Colbert) and husband Harry (Patric Knowles) have lived in Borneo for years. Harry is a British officer, while Agnes has written a well-known book on the country. Their lives are disrupted when the Japanese invade in December 1941. With men sent to one prison camp, and women and children to another, the couple must survive apart despite cruel treatment by their captors. For three years, their physical stamina will be tested by malaria and sadistic prison wardens.

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Variety

Oct 18, 2008

Many of the scenes are tearjerkers in the better sense of the word.

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Trevor Johnston

Time Out

Jun 24, 2006

Claudette Colbert suffers courageously in a Japanese internment camp, in Nunnally Johnson's adaptation of the true-life testimony of writer Agnes Newton Keith. Hayakawa's impressive, too.

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Bosley Crowther

New York Times

Mar 25, 2006

Agnes Newton Keith's tremendous story of some marginal barbarities of the recent war she saw and bravely endured... has received surpassing illustration from Twentieth Century-Fox in a bold and heroic screen drama of the same title.

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Josephine O'Neill

Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Oct 4, 2019

Jean Negulesco's direction, though full of repetitive shots, catches such moments of dramatic and poignant contrast.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Dec 7, 2010

B+

Claudette Colbert gives an extremely powerful performance in this well-directed WWII prison drama, based on the memoirs of American writer Agnes Newton Keith.

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Christopher Lloyd

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Nov 2, 2010

4/5

The depiction of Japanese soldiers is often harsh, but somewhat nuanced considering the era. At least there are none wearing Coke-bottle glasses and speaking English in a racist patter.

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Hagrid M

Oct 15, 2013

If war is hell for men, what must it be like for women? Caught with their men in Borneo in front of an invading Japanese army, and then taken prisoner, the movie focuses on an American wife (and their son) of a British public servant - ordered to remain at their posts. How they survive is played for poignancy, and Claudette Colbert (nearly too matronly for the role) is up for that task. The work belongs though to Sessue Hayakawa and his stunning portrayal of a man of the world figuratively caught and imprisoned by the same war. His reaction to the bombing of Hiroshima is reason alone to see this surprisingly (for a 'woman's movie') harrowing tale.

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Jean Negulesco

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Claudette Colbert

Agnes Newton Keith

Patric Knowles

Harry Keith

Sessue Hayakawa

Colonel Suga

Florence Desmond

Betty Sommers

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Synopsis

Agnes Keith (Claudette Colbert) and husband Harry (Patric Knowles) have lived in Borneo for years. Harry is a British officer, while Agnes has written a well-known book on the country. Their lives are disrupted when the Japanese invade in December 1941. With men sent to one prison camp, and women and children to another, the couple must survive apart despite cruel treatment by their captors. For three years, their physical stamina will be tested by malaria and sadistic prison wardens.

Director: Jean Negulesco
Producer: Nunnally Johnson
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 20, 1950, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 11, 2016
Runtime: 1h 46m

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