Top Billed Cast
Claudette Colbert
Agnes Newton Keith
Patric Knowles
Harry Keith
Florence Desmond
Betty Sommers
Sessue Hayakawa
Colonel Michio Suga
Sylvia Andrew
Henrietta
Mark Keuning
George Keith
Phyllis Morris
Sister Rose
Howard Chuman
Lieutenant Nekata
Patrick Whyte
Englishman
Jerry Fujikawa
Japanese Soldier
Lee MacGregor
Sailor
John Burton
Elderly Resident (uncredited)
Siti Zainab
Woman Prisoner (uncredited)
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Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Apr 17 2022
If anyone ever watched the acclaimed BBC series of the 1980s "Tenko", then they might well appreciate the hardships that women had to endure at the hands (or the canes) of their Japanese occupiers. That oppression is well illustrated in this dark drama from Jean Negulesco. Claudette Colbert ("Mrs. Keith") is an American writer, married to a British colonial official when they are invaded. She is separated from husband "Harry" (Patric Knowles) and is soon, together with her young son "George" (Mark Keuning) interned in the most basic of camps with the other women of her community. Sessue Hayakaw...
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Original Language
English
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Keywords
- world war ii
- prisoner of war
- based on true story
- borneo
- japanese occupation
- war effort
- internment camp
- woman in peril
- prisoner of war camp