Three Came Home
by Jean Negulesco
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Actor: Claudette Colbert, Florence Desmond, Patric Knowles, Sessue Hayakawa, Sylvia AndrewDirector: Jean Negulesco
Brand: Bayside ENT Dist
Cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner
Cinematographer: William H. Daniels
Editor: Dorothy Spencer
Producer: Nunnally Johnson
Writer: Nunnally Johnson
Writer: Agnes Newton Keith
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alpha Video
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DVD Review: Dated, but surprisingly moving and powerful
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on a true story, a memoir written by American Agnes Keith of the years she,her young son and British husband spent in Japanese POW camps in Indonesia, the film though restrained in the way of its time, is still very powerful about the brutality that soldiers display during war, even toward civilians. The bad guys in this film are of course the Japanese, but we've all learned since then that soldiers from all countries can at times behave abominally.
The camera discreetly turns away at some scenes of physical torment. The camp commander played by Sessue Hayakawa, is a tough soldier but a complex character with facets of humanity and even grief. The lead character and her husband have a physically passionate relationship, and there is even a suggestion of a clandestine conjugal tryst in the jungle.
My criticism is primarily about cosmetics, literally. For a woman and her son, and their fellow captives who spent three years or more in appalling conditions, Claudette Colbert et al looked incredibly healthy and well-groomed at the end. Starvation and beatings were frequent, but barely a hair fell out of place, and after the captivity she looked pretty much the same as before-wearing salvaged clothes that fit beautifully.
Still, the tensions, the unfairness, the fear, the dirt, labor, and disease, loss of family time, and even the physical passions, approach authenticity, which was especially rare in film in 1950. The DVD version I watched had no special feature--the film is in black and white. The story was so moving that I ordered a copy of the book from Amazon UK. This was one of Claudette Colbert's finest performances.
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