Word: negulesco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Johnson's Three Came Home ought to be better than it is. The title itself eliminates any long-sustained suspense, and reduces the story largely to a string of loosely connected episodes, e.g., an attempted rape, the machine-gunning of out-of-bounds prisoners. Director Jean (Johnny Belinda) Negulesco works so hard at building up the tension each time that the picture verges at times on old-fashioned melodramatics...
...forced breakup and final reunion of-families gives the movie an emotional core that is undeniably affecting. But tearful farewells can pall when protracted and repeated as they are in this script, and Director Negulesco's treatment of emotional scenes, notably at the picture's end, is so contrived to wring the last tear from the audience that it comes perilously close to cheapening them...