The true story of one woman's personal experience!
Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.
- 6.6
- 1950
- Released
- 1h 46m
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 RoseHoward Chuman
Lieutenant NekataPatrick Whyte
Englishman
Jerry Fujikawa
Japanese SoldierLee MacGregor
SailorJohn Burton
Elderly Resident (uncredited)
Siti Zainab
Woman Prisoner (uncredited)
Released
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- #internment camp
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Reviews
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 s