| Three Came Home | |
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| Directed by | Jean Negulesco |
| Screenplay by | Nunnally Johnson |
| Based on | Three Came Home 1947 memoir by Agnes Newton Keith |
| Produced by | Nunnally Johnson |
| Starring | Claudette Colbert Patric Knowles Florence Desmond Sessue Hayakawa Phyllis Morris |
| Narrated by | Claudette Colbert |
| Cinematography | William H. Daniels Milton R. Krasner |
| Edited by | Dorothy Spencer |
| Music by | Hugo Friedhofer |
| Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
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Running time | 106 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.9 million (US)[1][2][3] |
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. Keith was initially interned at Berhala Island near Sandakan, North Borneo (today's Sabah) but spent most of her captivity at Batu Lintang camp at Kuching, Sarawak. The camp was liberated in September 1945.
Adapted and produced by Nunnally Johnson, the film stars Claudette Colbert. It is now in the public domain and so is available to watch in its entirety online at no charge.[4]
- ^ "The Top Box Office Hits of 1950". Variety. January 3, 1951.
- ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 223
- ^ "Top Grosses of 1950". Variety. January 3, 1951. p. 58.
- ^ "Three Came Home : Jean Negulesco". Retrieved December 23, 2012.