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Three Came Home is a 1947 memoir written by Agnes Newton Keith, based on her experiences during the Japanese invasion of North Borneo. A film based on it was released in 1950 and featured Claudette Colbert in the lead role. Initially, Olivia de Havilland was chosen for the role. Originally published in the US in March 1947 by Boston publisher Little, Brown and Co. and in the UK in 1948 by London publisher Michael Joseph, it was republished by Eland in 1985, and Eland released a new edition in 2002.

Adaptations (1)

Three Came Home was adapted into a 1950 film.

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    Three Came Home
    1950 · film · 106 min · dir. Jean Negulesco · IMDb ↗
    IMDb7.3100%

    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.

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