Three Came Home Movie Review 1950

Colbert is an American married to a British administrator in the Far East during WWII. Conquering Japanese throw the whole family into a brutal POW concentration camp, and their confinement is recounted in harrowing and unsparing detail. Superior drama, also laudable for a fairly even-handed portrayal of the enemy captors. Based on an autobiographical book by Agnes Newton-Keith.

Distribution

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 106 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II, Survival, POW/MIA, This Is Your Life, True Stories

Screenplay

Nunnally Johnson

Cast

Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Sessue Hayakawa, Florence Desmond, Sylvia Andrew, Mark Keuning, Phyllis Morris, Howard Chuman

Cinematography

William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner

Director

Jean Negulesco

Music

Hugo Friedhofer

Producer

Nunnally Johnson, 20th Century-Fox