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Powerful and fact-based drama starring Claudette Colbert as Agnes Keith, a woman who, with her husband and young son, are captured by the invading Japanese in Borneo in 1941 and then segregated in a prison camp. The film derives its considerable, if harrowing impact, by the deliberate unsensationalism of its treatment, fine central performances and, unusual for a picture of its time, its refusal to portray Sessue Hayawaka's character as camp commandant Colonel Suga in xenophobic terms.

Keywords:

Drama, War, Historical, History, Based-on-True-Story, World War, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, Censored, WWII, WW2, World War 2

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (1950) (USA) (4 Star)

Cast:

Claudette Colbert	.... Agnes Keith
Patric Knowles	.... Harry Keith
Florence Desmond	.... Betty Sommers
Sessue Hayakawa	.... Colonel Suga
Sylvia Andrew	.... Henrietta
Mark Keuning	.... George

Supporting Cast:

Phyllis Morris	.... Sister Rose
Howard Chuman	.... Lieutenant Nekata

Directors:

Jean Negulesco

Writers:

Nunnally Johnson
Agnes Newton Keith