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...World War II, the Japanese invaders beheaded Sjarif Hamid Al-Kadri, Sultan of West Borneo, and ten of his sons. The Sultan's eleventh son, an officer in the Royal Dutch Indies Army, was imprisoned, but survived. At war's end the eleventh son became Sultan of West Borneo...
While the Sultan of West Borneo served Holland, another Indonesian potentate, Sultan Hamengku Buwono of Jogjakarta, threw his own hereditary power on the side of the revolutionary Republic. As the Republic's Defense Minister, the Sultan of Jogjakarta built a Republican army out of scattered guerrilla bands...
...Three Came Home" is a forceful and absorbing adaption of Agnes Newton Keith's 1947 best-selling account of her three wartime years with her small son in a North Borneo prison camp. Unfortunately, however, the makers of this film have placed an undue emphasis on the spectacular and more terrifying aspects of Mrs. Keith's imprisonment and, in doing so, have underplayed realism for the sake of melodrama...
...Keith's story tells how she and her two-year old son were separated from her husband, a British official in North Borneo, and placed in a Japanese concentration camp from early 1942 until liberation in 1945. In describing Mrs. Keith's ordeals, Director Jean Negulesco strings together a series of horrowing experiences, such as the massacre of a group of out-of-bounds captives, but fails to take sufficient note of the less dramatic, everyday hardships of prison camp life. Very seldom does one get a feeling of the hopeless monotony and emptiness which must have been as trying...
...picture thoroughly deglamorizes Claudette Colbert in the leading role, and takes pains to recreate authentic Japanese prison compounds against jungle backgrounds filmed in Borneo. It shows considerable restraint in its treatment of Japanese soldiers; there is even a sympathetic Japanese colonel feelingly played by the silent screen's Sessue Hayakawa...