Three Came Home (1950)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Jean Negulesco

Writers:

Nunnally Johnson (screenplay)
Agnes Newton Keith (book)

Release Date:

20 February 1950 (USA)

Genre:

War | Drama

Tagline:

The story of one woman's confinement in a WW II Japanese prison camp

Plot:

The true story of Agnes Newton Keith's imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps from 1941 to the end of WWII...

Plot Keywords:

Prisoner Of War | Japanese | WWII | Hardship | Shot To Death

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

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #13819) | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 (video rating) (2004) | UK:A (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

It was while filming this movie that Claudette Colbert sustained the back injury that forced her to give up the part of Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) to Bette Davis.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Slanted Screen (2006)

Soundtrack:

There's a Long, Long Trail

Horrors of War !

Always enjoyed the great acting of Claudette Colbert,(Tomorrrow Is Forever",'46 and especially her role in this picture as Agnes Keith, who is captured along with her husband and son in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during WW II and towards its Victory. This film clearly shows how people in our past Wars were treated by their captives during this terrible time in American History. Agnes Keith is a successful writer and is admired by a Japanese Colonel who enjoyed her writings and even asks her for an autographed copy of her books. However, once the Colonel turns his back, all Hell breaks loose. Hollywood did a great job of trying to show the American Public what horrors went on in this Prisoner Camp and others during the entire war in the Pacific, which is quite mildly accomplished. War creates monsters out of many people and the opportunity to seek power over other human beings is an on going struggle in this world. After viewing this picture I became very interested in this subject and read,"The Rape of Nanking", by Iris Chang. This is definitely a great film that should be view by many generations in the future.