Nunnally Johnson

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American screenwriter and producer born in 1897, one of 20th Century Fox's top writer-producers of the 1940s and 50s. He wrote The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and produced and adapted Three Came Home (1950). He died in 1977.

Produced

6.71950·1h 46mPD

War, Drama

A 1950 American war drama directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Nunnally Johnson, based on Agnes Newton Keith's memoir of her imprisonment by the Japanese in Borneo during World War II. Claudette Colbert plays Keith, an American writer living in North Borneo who is separated from her husband (Patric Knowles) and interned with her young son in a brutal women's POW camp, where the camp commander Colonel Suga (Sessue Hayakawa) — an admirer of her book — proves an ambiguous figure. Grim and unusually frank for a studio picture of its era, the film was shot on location and earned Colbert some of the strongest reviews of her career. It entered the public domain through non-renewal.

War · Drama

Three Came Home

1950 - War