Three Came Home

Three Came Home (1950)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Biopic [feature], Docudrama, POW Drama, War Drama  |   Release Date - Feb 20, 1950 (USA - Unknown), Feb 20, 1950 (USA)  |   Run Time - 106 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Based on the autobiographical book by Agnes Newton Keith, Three Came Home stars Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Keith. Trapped in Borneo during the Japanese invasion, Mrs. Keith and her British husband (Patric Knowles) are penned up in a prison camp along with several other subjects. Despite the humanitarian views of camp commander Col. Suga (Sessue Hayakawa), Mrs. Keith is subject to torture, starvation, and humiliation at the hands of the guards, with Suga helpless to intervene lest he incur the wrath of his own superiors. Three Came Home contains several unforgettable moments, including a comic interlude between the male and female prisoners that ends abruptly with a barrage of Japanese bullets, and the heartwrenching scene wherein Suga learns that his family has been killed in a bombing raid. Since lapsing into the public domain in 1977, Three Came Home has popped up innumerable times on cable television.

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POW (Prisoner of War), atrocity, brutality, capture, concentration-camp, inmate, MIA (Missing in Action), POW/MIA, survivor, America, Britain, camp, camping, war, writing, East, family, Japan

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High Artistic Quality, High Historical Importance