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Three came home
A mother's ordeal in a Japanese prison camp
By Agnes Newton Keith
Pages: 304. ISBN No: 0 907871 28 3
Date of first publication: 1948
Eland publication date: January 1, 2002
Price: £9.99
Review: http://www.patch.com/books/3camehome.html
Film: Three Came Home 1950 - USA
Docudrama/Biography [feature]/War Drama/POW Drama
Plot Description
Starring - Sylvia Andrew, Claudette Colbert, Florence Desmond, Sessue
Hayakawa, Patric Knowles. Directed by Jean Negulesco. (NR, 106 minutes).
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 children are penned up in a prison camp along with several other American and British subjects. Despite the humanitarian views of camp commander Sessue Hayakawa, Mrs. Keith is subject to torture, starvation and humiliation at the hands of the guards, with Hayakawa 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 Hayakawa 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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide