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1950 Certificate 12
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Based on the autobiography by Agnes Newton Keith, which tells the story of Mrs Keith and her children's imprisonment in Borneo during the Japanese invasion. Read more

Starring Claudette Colbert, Patrick Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa
Director Jean Negulesco
Genres Drama

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Three Came Home

Based on the autobiography by Agnes Newton Keith, which tells the story of Mrs Keith and her children's imprisonment in Borneo during the Japanese invasion.

Starring Claudette Colbert, Patrick Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa, Mark Keuning, Sylvia Andrew
Director Jean Negulesco
Studio WHE EUROPE LIMITED
Run time DVD: 1 hr 45 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 26 Apr 2004
Production year: 1950
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (3) of Three Came Home

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  • 1 stars out of 5

    Paulette Goddard gave up her screen career (apart from one Italian job ten years later) after being reduced to this dreary non-thriller for Hammer Films — a long fall from her first British picture, An Ideal Husband, six years earlier. Supposedly irresistible as the wife of a vanished businessman, she is favoured by Hollywood-style soft-focus close-ups. Her husband, played by William Sylvester, reappears with a bad case of amnesia, seeking to find out which of three former associates had tried to kill him. Suave character actor George Sanders didn't really write the book on which this film is based and wisely refrained from appearing in it.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Taken prisoner with husband Patric Knowles and their young son during the 1941 invasion of North Borneo, Claudette... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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    Rated - 2 stars

    Neil Welton Review

    A moving and powerful tale is devastatingly undermined here by wooden acting. Indeed, coffee table connoisseurs will positively adore this unintentional homage to wartime Government information (propaganda) films. Just like the genre it will interest and inform but the acting, at times, will entertain for all the wrong reasons. Unusually for a film of this period the Japanese enemy of the piece is portrayed in a sensitive and sympathetic light. A most unusual angle which is sadly overshadowed by corny dialogue and the most predictable action sequences. Perfect for an evening when there's nothing else to do. Consider renting it.

      • Neil Welton from Cardiff
      • Posted 28 Jan 2006 02:00

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  • 1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    sunday afternoon

    This film was typical of it's time. A real sunday matinee, enjoyable, but lacking impact.

      • A customer from England
      • Posted 21 Jul 2005 07:05

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