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Three Came Home is a 1950 American World War II film directed by Jean Negulesco, 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 Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for.
- $1.9 million (US)
- Hugo Friedhofer
- Nunnally Johnson
Three Came Home: Directed by Jean Negulesco. With Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa. During Word War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith is imprisoned by the Japanese in various POW camps in North Borneo and Sarawak.
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- Drama, War
- Jean Negulesco
- 1950-02-20
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 ...
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- Claudette Colbert
- Jean Negulesco
- Twentieth Century Fox
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Based on Agnes Newton Keith's bestselling 1947 memoir, Three Came Home (1950) tells Keith's harrowing true story of survival in a POW camp during World War II. In the film, Mrs. Keith (played by Claudette Colbert) is an American writer living in North Borneo with her British husband Harry (Patric Knowles) and young son George (Mark Keuning) when the war breaks out.
- Jean Negulesco, Jason Lindsey, Saul Wurtzel
- Claudette Colbert
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In this docudrama, American author Agnes Newton Keith recounts her time spent in Japanese internment in Borneo during WWII. In 1941, she and her husband, Harry Keith, a colonial British official, had already been living in Sandakan, the capital of British North Borneo, for several years, with their then four year old son Georgie, when they knew ...
Three Came Home - 1950. This powerful drama is the true story of American author Agnes Newton Keith's ordeal as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War Two. Claudette Colbert stars as Mrs. Keith, living on the island of Sandakan in the Borneo region, with her British husband and young son, when the Japanese invade. Rentals include 30 days ...
