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Writers:
Guy Elmes (writer)
S.C. George (novel)
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Release Date:
4 December 1952 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Where Civilization Ends... and Adventure Begins!
Plot:
The marriage of rubber-plantation owner Jim Frazer (Jack Hawkins) and his wife, Liz (Claudette Colbert)... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Claudette Colbert ... Liz Frazer
Jack Hawkins ... Jim Frazer
Anthony Steel ... Hugh Dobson
Ram Gopal ... Nair
Jeremy Spenser ... Mat
Tom Macaulay ... Jack Bushell
Helen Goss ... Eleanor Bushell
Sonya Hana ... Ah Mov
Andy Ho ... Wan Li
Peter Asher ... Mike Frazer
Yah Ming ... Ah Siong
Shaym Bahadur ... Putra
Ng Cheuk Kwong ... Ho Tang
Bryan Coleman ... Capt. Dell
Don Sharp ... Lt. Summers
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Outpost in Malaya (USA)
White Blood
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Runtime:
USA:88 min | UK:91 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
Colbert fires a mean machine gun, 3 April 2002
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Author: RitaRisque from Australia

Sweet, docile little Claudette Colbert - firing a machine gun? Anything's possible in the movies!

Colbert and her husband live on their rubber plantation in Malaysia (back when it was Malaya) with their small son. Her husband is too absorbed in the plantation to notice her very much, and she decides that when it's time to take their son to school in England, she will go with him and never return. But then she is unable to leave when bandits kill one of their neighbours, then tries to kill Colbert, and the whole plantation is set up in a murderous game of cat and mouse.

You'd like this if you liked Red Dust with Gable and Harlow, the setting is very similar. For an added bonus, some people may remember the cartoon Riki Tiki Tavi, about a mongoose who takes care of a household and keeps the cobras at bay - this is wonderfully reproduced with a real mongoose and cobra in a thrilling scene, very reminiscent of the cartoon, even down to the same room!

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