THREE CAME HOME

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Three_Came_Home/70010492?trkid=496624 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Newton_Keith Sessue Hayakawa gives a fine performance as a Japanese officer overseeing a prison camp in WWII. The doubt and strain of his situation are well worked out in well-written scenes between himself and the star Claudette Colbert, who is a model of screen acting at its best. Inherently game, like so many actresses of her era - Paulette Goddard, Rosalind Russell, Carol Lombard, for instance - she gives all her scenes full value. We never feel cheated by this actress. The story is convincing, as are the settings and the tensions. The ending is a relief of a difficult and gripping situation. The title gives it away, but never mind. It's exciting nonetheless Very well done. The scene I thought most moving was when the camp commandant (Hayakawa) took off with the three children, soon after learning that his own three children had died at Hiroshima. I was almost sure of what would happen, but not positive, and yes I was holding my breath for a moment there. That scene was laid out very well, and not overplayed. Hayakawa plays a similar but not identical character to the same role he played in Bridge Over the River Kwai. I can't review this as a movie as if it weren't real. American liberals like to loath FDR's policy of interning Japanese citizens but there was nothing more cruel then what the Japanese did to civilians during WW 2. My Great Grand Father was a business man living in Singapore when he was interned by the Japanese in 1941. When he was finally able to discuss what he and my Great Grand mother ( who died in captivity ) went through, I lost all sympathy for those who suffered as a result of " the bomb. " I realize that most of the victims of the atomic bombs were civilians, but so too were my Great Grand parents and the Japanese enslaved and tortured them not for just a moment, but for years. Thankfully, their son survived to keep our family alive. I just recently watched this film and its story directly coincides with what my Great Grand Father described. It's very difficult for me not to hate them. ¿Three Came Home¿ is a moving film about the indomitable nature of the human spirit. American author Agnes Newton Keith (Claudette Colbert) lived on the island of Borneo at the beginning of World War II. As the Japanese neared the island, she refused to be evacuated along with other wives, preferring to stay with her husband. When the Japanese invaded, the men and women were sent to separate concentration camps. Keith, along with her young son, endured several years of imprisonment, hunger, degradation and violence, yet emerged with her spirit unbroken. Colbert gives a powerful performance as does Sessue Hayakawa, playing a cultured, sympathetic Japanese officer. The other performers, especially the actresses playing Keith¿s fellow prisoners, are also fine. The writing is intelligent, the direction is crisp, making this adaptation of Keith¿s memoir an outstanding film experience. i thought this was an excellent movie. why they called it ... three went home ... i dont know. it could b that its because in her family 3 survived, but im not sure. the reason i bring this out is because almost everyone who was imprisoned that she knew really did go home, which was not the case for other pacific area pow's. that isnt to say they were treated nicely, im just saying it as a comparison. you cant compare thier roomy and comfortable barracks to the pigion holes of the camps in Poland, or even of others in the pacific. This has to be a reflection on the cornel (bad spelling ker-nel) who was in charge for most of the time that they were imprisoned. i really felt badly for him when he told agnes that his children had died. i believe he was a man who loved his country, family, and did his job as best as he could. there are verbal references to beatings, and fear of the soldiers, but very little of it is shown on the screen. i agree with the other review that this is a safe movie to show to kids because there is very little tourcher and few exicutions shown, but the point gets through about how bad the situation was. it gives you a somewhat safe way to help kids understand war, and what it means to be a prisoner of war. then u can talk to them about what they have seen. My mother (1912), who just died two years ago at 97, never went to the movies in the time I knew her. She was a widow by 1954 and simply had to work long hours to pay the bills. She did go the the movies a lot before though, as a single woman in the 1930s and probably during WWII, when My father was away for three years. She would mention Greer Garson, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford--and Claudette Colbert. This movie sinks or swims around Colbert, as it is really about what happened to her character. The movie swims! By the way I just finished the film, and for the life of me I do not recall a daring escape (from the blurb above). She remained in the camp until September 1945, when the Aussies finally came to the POW camps. If she had tried the "escape", she would have been shot for sure. There is also no mention of this "escape" in her Wikipedia bio. She does get in trouble when she reports a guard who tried to rape her. Three Came Home 1950NR104 minutes Claudette Colbert stars as American writer Agnes Newton Keith in this tensely dramatic true story of survival in the Pacific theater of operations during the dark days of World War II. Separated from her British husband, Agnes, along with her young child, finds herself thrown into a Japanese concentration camp for the duration and attempts a daring escape. Costars Patric Knowles and Sessue Hayakawa. Jean Negulesco directs. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Newton_Keith Agnes Newton Keith From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search Portrait of Agnes Newton KeithAgnes Jones Goodwillie Newton Keith (July 4, 1901 – March 30, 1982) was an American author best known for her three autobiographical accounts of life in North Borneo (now Sabah) before, during, and after the Second World War. The second of these, Three Came Home, tells of her time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. She published seven books in all. Contents [hide] 1 Early life Early lifeAgnes Newton Keith was born Agnes Newton in Oak Park, Illinois. Her family moved to Hollywood, California when she was very young. Her father was one of the founders of the Del Monte Company. The family moved again when Agnes was ten, this time to the nearby beach community of Venice, California, for her brother Al's health.[1] She attended the University of California, Berkeley for four years, and upon graduating got a job with the San Francisco Examiner.[2] Eight months after starting her journalism career, she was attacked by an assailant who was convinced that the newspaper was persecuting him by printing Krazy Kat cartoons. She received serious head injuries which affected her memory. She also became seriously depressed, and after two years of illness her father sent her and her brother Al to Europe to recuperate. Returning refreshed to the States, Agnes decided to become a writer, but soon afterwards lost her eyesight for two years as a delayed result of her injuries. During this period she studied dancing, modelled clothes and 'did bits in the movies'.[3] In 1934 she married Henry G. Keith, known as Harry. Keith, an Englishman, had been a friend of Al's when both boys had been at the same school in San Diego, and Agnes had first met him when she was eight years old. Keith had gone on to work for the Government of North Borneo, and Agnes had not seen him in ten years when he visited California while on leave in 1934. However, as soon as they re-met they decided to get married, and were wed three days later. Three months after their marriage, following an operation to cure Agnes's eyesight, they sailed for Borneo 2 Life in Borneo Life in BorneoHarry was Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture for the government of North Borneo under the Chartered Company, and was also Honorary Curator of the Sandakan (State) Museum. He had worked in Borneo since 1925, and was based in Sandakan.[5] Agnes spent an idyllic five years at Sandakan, sometimes accompanying her husband on trips into the interior of the country. Harry persuaded her to write about her experiences and enter it in the 1939 Atlantic Monthly Non-fiction Prize contest. The judges voted unanimously for her entry to win, and it was partly serialized in the magazine before being published in November of that year as Land Below the Wind. The book received favorable reviews: The Scotsman described it as "A delightful book ... It has abundant humour and a pervading charm ... An original and engaging description of a country and people of extraordinary interest."[6] The Keiths were on leave in Canada when war was declared on 3 September 1939. Harry was immediately ordered back to Borneo. Agnes's first child, Henry George Newton Keith, known as George, was born in Sandakan on 5 April 1940.[7] Agnes Newton Keith (left) speaking with Major T. T. Johnson, 2/6 Field Park Company (centre) and Brigadier T. C. Eastick (right), Commander of the Kuching Force of the Australian 9th Division, shortly after the Australians liberated the camp at Batu Lintang, Kuching on 11 September 1945.The Japanese invading forces landed in Sandakan on 19 January 1942. For the first few months of occupation, the Keiths were allowed to stay in their own home. On 12 May Agnes and George were imprisoned on Berhala Island (Pulau Berhala) near Sandakan, in a building that had once been the Government Quarantine Station, along with other Western women and children. Harry was imprisoned nearby.[8] They spent eight months there before Agnes and George were sent to Kuching in Sarawak. They left by a small steamer on 12 January 1943 and arrived on January 20.[9] They were imprisoned in Batu Lintang camp near Kuching, unusual in that it accommodated both prisoners of war and civilian internees in between eight and ten separate compounds.[10] Harry later arrived at the camp.[11] The camp was finally liberated on 11 September 1945 by the 9th Australian Army Division under the command of Brigadier T. C. Eastick.[12] All three members of the Keith family had survived their internment. Although punishable by death if discovered, many inmates of the camp, both civilian and POW, kept diaries and notes about their imprisonment.[10][13] One of Agnes's fellow female internees, Hilda E. Bates, described Agnes in her diary entry dated 21 September 1944: "Among my companions in camp are some outstanding personalities, and the following [is one] of these. Mrs A.K. - a noted American novelist, who proposes to [write] a book on our life here. She is much sought after by the Japanese Camp Commandant, as he has read one of her previous books about Borneo. He evidently holds the opinion that a cup of [coffee] given in his office, and a packet of biscuits as a gift for her small son, will ensure him appearing as a hero in said book! "Mrs A.K. has an unusual appearance, being six feet in height, very thin, and with the stealthy lops of a Red Indian. She dresses in a startling and very flamboyant fashion, in very bright colours, while her hair is worn in two plaits, one over each shoulder, thus adding to a slightly Indian aura!".[10] Mary Baldwin, a 70-year old fellow-internee, did not get on well with Keith, suspecting that she was "too ready to be polite and co-operative with the Japanese guards and their officers in return for favours - notably food and medicine for her infant son."[14] Co-operation with their captors was very much frowned on by the prisoners, although understandable in this case, given Keith's no doubt powerful desire to provide for her son. Book cover of Three Came Home (NB Does not show the Keiths)After their liberation and a short period on Labuan Island for rest and recuperation, the Keiths returned to Victoria, British Columbia, where Harry had had a small country house since his bachelor days. In February 1946 he was asked to return to Borneo by the new Colonial Administration which had taken over from the Chartered Company. He was to be in charge of food production. He agreed to go, and so he and his family were split yet again. Agnes and George remained in Victoria, and Agnes worked on her second book, an autobiographical account of her imprisonment: on her release Agnes had gathered up her notes and diary entries from their various hiding places,[15] and she used them as the basis for her book, Three Came Home, which was published in April 1947. It detailed the hardships and deprivations which the internees and POWs had undergone under the Japanese, and became a bestseller. In 1950, it was turned into a motion picture, with Claudette Colbert playing the role of Agnes. Agnes and George finally returned to Sandakan in 1947, a full year after Harry.[16] Borneo was a much-changed place, having suffered doubly, first under the Japanese occupation and then from the ferocious Allied attacks as the liberation of the island took place. In 1951 the third book in Agnes's Borneo trilogy was published, entitled White Man Returns. This chronicled the time from Agnes's and George's return to Borneo up through December 1950.[17] The Keiths remained in Sandakan until 1952. Agnes and Harry had one other child a daughter, Jean Allison Keith, born on August 30, 1937, in Sandakan. [18] She is mentioned, though not by name, in Keith's first book, "Land Below the Wind", on page 174 of the first edition: "A picture stood on the table by us of our little girl at home in her party dress." On page 171, while discussing small-boy Usit with Harry, she says "I'm afraid I'm too lazy to take on the job of being a parent again." Copies of White Man Returns are dedicated "To my children George and Jean". It has been stated that Jean will be invited to the celebrations for the reissue of Land Below the Wind in Sabah on 6 July 2007.[19] 2.1 Newlands Newlands Newlands, the postwar home of the Keiths in Sandakan. Photo taken in Dec 2007.On arriving in Sandakan in 1934, Agnes moved into Harry's bachelor bungalow, but the couple soon relocated to a government building on a hilltop. They lived there until they were interned in 1942. After the war the Keiths returned to Sandakan to find the house destroyed. They built a new house in 1946-47 on the original footprint and in a similar style to the original. They named this house Newlands and lived there until they left Sabah in 1952. After nearly 50 years of gradual deterioration, first under tenants and then as an empty shell, the house was restored by Sabah Museum in collaboration with the Federal Department of Museums and Antiquities in 2001. The house is a rare survival of post-war colonial wooden architecture. It was opened to the public in 2004 and is a popular tourist attraction. It contains displays on Agnes and Harry Keith as well as information about colonial life in Sandakan in the first half of the twentieth century, and is commonly referred to as the Agnes Keith House.[ 3 Philippines, Libya and later years Philippines, Libya and later yearsIn 1953 Harry joined the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, and was posted to the Philippines, based in Manila. Agnes wrote Bare Feet in the Palace about post-war life in the Philippines, culminating in the 1953 election. It was published in 1955. Harry then became FAO Representative in Libya, and served six years as forestry adviser in the country. He retired in 1964.[21] True to form, Agnes wrote about her experiences in the country, publishing Children of Allah, between the Sea and the Sahara in 1966. In 1959 Agnes was named an Alpha Gamma Delta Distinguished Citizen.[22] The Keiths retired to British Columbia, where Agnes continued writing. Her first novel, Beloved Exiles, was published in 1972. It was set in North Borneo in the period between 1936 and 1951. Her last book, Before the Blossoms Fall: Life and Death in Japan, was published in 1975. Agnes Newton Keith died at age 80 in Oak Bay, British Columbia. Harry died the same year. 4 The Keiths' libraryThe Keiths' libraryBoth Agnes and Harry Keith were ardent bibliophiles. Following their deaths, their collection of books and documents on Borneo and South East Asia was auctioned in 2002. The collection numbered over 1,000 volumes, and had been gathered over many years. Agnes wrote of the collection, which they were forced to abandon to the occupying Japanese forces, in Three Came Home: "Harry's library of Borneo books, perhaps the most complete in existence, his one self-indulgence...".[23] The auction press release commented that "Many of these items are not listed in any institutional holdings, including the British Library, and may well be the only surviving extant copies".[24] 5 Legacy edit] LegacyThe title of Agnes's first book about the then-North Borneo, Land Below the Wind, has become the unofficial motto of Sabah. The phrase was used by sailors to describe all the lands south of the typhoon belt, but Agnes popularised the special connection of the phrase with Sabah, by applying it exclusively to North Borneo in her book.[25] As well as inspiring the film of the same name, Three Came Home has been cited as one of the sources for cinematic and television depictions of women in Japanese camps during World War II. Paradise Road and Tenko both contain scenes based on episodes in the book. 6 Works by Agnes Newton Keith Works by Agnes Newton KeithLand Below the Wind Boston, Mass, Little Brown and Company (1939, November) Three Came Home Boston, Mass, Little Brown and Company (1947, April) White Man Returns Boston, Mass, Little Brown and Company (1951) Bare Feet in the Palace Boston, Mass, Little Brown and Company (1955) Children of Allah, between the Sea and the Sahara Boston, Mass, Little Brown and Company (1966) Beloved Exiles Boston, Mass, Little Brown and Company (1972) Before the Blossoms Fall: Life and Death in Japan Boston, Mass, Atlantic Monthly-Little, Brown and Company (1975) Agnes Newton Keith also had articles published in The Atlantic Monthly. 7 Further reading Further readingMoo-Tan, Stella (2002) "A Portrait of Agnes Newton Keith: Noted Author, Survivor, Heroine" Sabah Society Journal 19 Ooi, Keat Gin (1998) Japanese Empire in the Tropics: Selected Documents and Reports of the Japanese Period in Sarawak, Northwest Borneo, 1941-1945 Ohio University Center for International Studies, Monographs in International Studies, SE Asia Series 101 8 Citations 9 External links

__________________________________________________________________________________ http://www.e-borneo.com/insideborneo/leisure0206.shtmlAgnes Newton Keith was an ambitious young reporter for the San Francisco Examiner in 1932 when she was beaten by a mugger outside their offices and suffered severe memory loss for several years. During her recovery in Los Angeles she became re-acquainted with a friend of her brother’s, Harry G. Keith, an urbane British foreign officer stationed in North Borneo as Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture. They were married the day before he had to return by ship to North Borneo and there she began a new life in the South Pacific. The profound tranquility of Sandakan before the War inspired her to write a book about her experiences and enter it in the 1939 Atlantic Monthly Non-Fiction Prize Contest. That book was entitled Land Below the Wind, an old seafarer’s term for the South Pacific islands that fall below the traditional typhoon routes, and won the contest by unanimous vote. The biography went on to become a bestseller and the title is employed to this day as the unofficial motto for the state of Sabah, Malaysia, the successor of North Borneo. The Japanese Army ended their idyllic seclusion in 1942 when they invaded North Borneo and sent the Keith family off to a POW compound for just over three years. Although keeping notes was a capital offence, Agnes wrote a diary on the backs of labels and in the margins of newspapers, which she buried in tins or sewed inside her son’s home-made toys. After the war Agnes Keith wrote her second book, Three Came Home, another bestseller which went on to become a successful film starring Claudert Colbert in 1950. Their former house in Sandakan is now a museum and is one of the leading attractions in Sabah, Malaysia. The Keiths were also passionate bibliophiles and collected an extensive array of books and documents relating to Borneo and Southeast Asia. Many of the items in their 1000+ volume library are unique presentation copies or the sole surviving examples of early monographs on the region. Without a doubt, this collection constitutes the most important collection of rare books and manuscripts relating to Borneo ever to have come up for auction. Highlights from the collection include: -Five early tracts by Sir James Brooke, the first Rajah of Sarawak, several presentation copies inscribed by the author to Walter Read, one of the founders of the British North Borneo Company. Bound together in one volume, these scarce monographs include "A Letter from Borneo" (1842) and "A Vindication of the Character and Proceedings…" (1853). The Keith collection also includes many signed and presentation copies of works by Charles and Anthony Brooke, Lady Raffles and John Leyden, among others. -"Statement and Application Addressed to the Marquess of Salisbury. G. G., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c., &c., &c., by the Undersigned on Behalf of Themselves and Their Associates. North Borneo." W. Greaves & Co., London, [1878]. The original charter application for the British North Borneo Company, privately printed for the founders, Alfred Dent and Baron von Overbeck. The charter was eventually granted on Nov. 1 1881, and the British North Borneo Chartered Company became the entity whichconstituted the State of North Borneo. This original charter application is arguably the founding document of British North Borneo and the modern state of Sabah, Malaysia. -A number of rare early monographs by BNBC officials, including Cowie, Treacher, Pryer, Donop and others, and the first works printed in Sandakan from the press of W. Rozario. Many of these items are not listed in any institutional holdings, including the British Library, and may well be the only surviving extant copies. -A volume of autograph letters by Capt. Francis Xavier Witti (1881-82) written during his ill-fated mission through the heart of Borneo that led to his infamous demise at the hands of head-hunters, including the final letter before his death. -A unique copy of the "Proclamation" of the Commander of the Japanese Forces upon their invasion of Sandakan issued on January 19 1942, as well as the sole surviving example of Khabar Perang (later Sandakan Nippo), the propaganda newspaper of the Japanese occupying forces in Sandakan, complete in 265 individual issues. -A number of rare, privately printed accounts of prisoner of war camps in Borneo and Malaysia, including scarce works by Archer, Simpson and others. Several scarce collections of early scholarly journals, including Moor’s Notices of the Indian Archipelago (1837) and Logan’s Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia (1847-1853). -Many important early explorations of the region, including works by Jacob Jansz de Roy, Beeckman, Sonnerat, Thomas Forrest, and James Rennell’s personal copy of Dalyrymple’s Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean. -An extensive library of over 100 19th century accounts by European travellers, including seminal works by Bock, Belcher, Crawfurd, Dienaar, Keppel, Mundy and Schwaner. -Many important works of natural history and illustration relating to the early exploration of Borneo, including a presentation copy of Beccari’s Nelle Foreste di Borneo (1902), Bethune’s Views of the Eastern Archipelago, John Whitehead’s magnificent folio volume on Mount Kinabalu, and important works by Temminck, Marryat, and Molengraaff. The fine selection of rare books also includes rare travel literature, botanicals, Americana and fine bindings and will be previewed for potential bidders in Los Angeles June 14-16 and in San Francisco June 21-23. Butterfields’ illustrated auction catalog can be viewed online at http://www.butterfields.com. Online real-time bidding during the 194-lot auction will be powered by eBay’s Live Auctions capability __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Came_Home

Three Came Home From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search Three Came Home Original poster Directed by Jean Negulesco Produced by Nunnally Johnson Written by Nunnally Johnson (Agnes Newton Keith, autobiography) Starring Claudette Colbert Patric Knowles Florence Desmond Sessue Hayakawa Music by Hugo Friedhofer Cinematography William H. Daniels Milton R. Krasner Editing by Dorothy Spencer Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Release date(s) 20 February 1950 Running time 106 min. Country United States Language English Three Came Home (1950) is a post-war film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, based on the memoirs of the same name by writer Agnes Newton Keith. It depicts Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for. Keith was initially interned at Berhala Island near Sandakan, North Borneo (today's Sabah) but spent most of her captivity at Batu Lintang camp at Kuching, Sarawak. The camp was liberated in September, 1945. Adapted and produced by Nunnally Johnson, directed by Jean Negulesco, the film starred Claudette Colbert in the lead role. The New York Times reviewer said, "It will shock you, disturb you, tear your heart out. But it will fill you fully with a great respect for a heroic soul." The film is now in the public domain and so is available to watch in its entirety online at no charge.[1][2][3][4][5] Plot outlineAmerican-born Agnes Keith (Colbert) and her British husband (Patric Knowles) live a cushioned colonial life in North Borneo with their young son in 1942. After the Japanese invasion, they are interned and then taken to separate prison camps, one for men, the other for women and children. Amid the brutality of the internment camp, the camp commander Lieutenant-Colonel Suga (Sessue Hayakawa) is respectful to Mrs Keith because he is familiar with her work, and is shown to be kind to the children even when his own family has died in Hiroshima. [edit] CastClaudette Colbert ... Agnes Newton Keith Patric Knowles ... Harry Keith Florence Desmond ... Betty Sommers Sessue Hayakawa ... Colonel Suga Sylvia Andrew ... Henrietta Mark Keuning ... George Keith Phyllis Morris ... Sister Rose Howard Chuman ... Lieutenant Nekata Douglas Walton ... Australian POW Critical receptionIn August 1976, Leslie Halliwell described the film as "[w]ell-made, harrowing", assigning it ** (2 stars out of 4), a rarely-granted high rating.[7] [edit] See alsoList of films in the public domain [edit] References 1.http://www.archive.org/details/ThreeCameHomeClaudetteColbertHankrip 2.^ http://www.profilms.com/publicdomain/index.htm 3.^ http://www.desertislandfilms.com/titles.html 4.^ http://www.buyoutfootage.com/pages/titles/blacktype/pd_featurefilms/pd_films_t.html 5.^ http://www.panamvideo.com/pg2.html 6.^ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=93059&category=Notes 7.^ Leslie Halliwell. Halliwell's Film Guide to 8,000 English Language Films, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1977; Granada, 1979. Halliwell's Film Guide, 11th ed, 1995. [edit] External links Three Came Home at the Internet Movie Database Three Came Home is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more] Three Came Home at AllRovi Variety review (extract from Variety's contemporary review of the film) Time Contemporary review of the book Agnes Newton Keith (1946, Reprint 2008) Three Came Home Films directed by Jean Negulesco 1940s Singapore Woman (1941) ·The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) ·The Conspirators (1944) ·Three Strangers (1946) ·Nobody Lives Forever (1946) ·Humoresque (1946) ·Deep Valley (1947) ·Johnny Belinda (1948) ·Road House (1948) ·Britannia Mews (1949) 1950s Three Came Home (1950) ·Under My Skin (1950) ·The Mudlark (1950) ·Take Care of My Little Girl (1951) ·Phone Call from a Stranger (1952) ·Lydia Bailey (1952) ·Lure of the Wilderness (1952) ·Titanic (1953) ·Scandal at Scourie (1953) ·How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) ·Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) ·Woman's World (1954) ·Daddy Long Legs (1955) ·The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) ·The Dark Wave (1956) ·Boy on a Dolphin (1957) ·The Gift of Love (1958) ·A Certain Smile (1958) ·Count Your Blessings (1959) ·The Best of Everything (1959) 1960s Jessica (1962) ·The Pleasure Seekers (1964) 1970s The Invincible Six (1970) ·Hello-Goodbye (1970) Cast:Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa, Sylvia Andrew, Mark Keuning, Phyllis Morris, Howard Chuman, Alex Frazer, Sung LiDirector:Jean NegulescoGenres:Dramas, Dramas based on real life, Military DramasThis movie is:Emotional, GrittyAvailability:Streaming until 4/27/12

A CHRISTIAN VIEW

A CHRISTIAN VIEW
Apostasy seems synonymous with sinning against the Holy Spirit and can happen in any epoch. I delight in the scriptural references alluded to for they indicate the stopping of spiritual endurance.

Revelation 3:1-4 "To the angel of the church of Sardis write.....But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels


1 Timothy 4:1-3 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, 3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

Going beyond te written word is like branding burdens into our brother's flesh.
Soiling garments here connotes a sense of finality, and the erasure alludes to such as Judas,son of perdition. Erasure from the book of Life.Is it consistent with complete redemption of all the created worlds and annihilation of the wicked, is this a consistency also?

Trumbo he relished the duel

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/movies/11trumbo.html?_r=2&oref=slogin. Peter Askin, director, and Christopher Trumbo, writer of the film "Trumbo" at the Toronto International Film Festival. Twitter Linkedin Sign In to E-Mail or Save This Print Share Close DiggRedditTumblrPermalink By MICHAEL CIEPLY Published: September 11, 2007 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10 — Sixty years after a Congressional panel grilled 10 uncooperative writers, directors and producers about their supposed Communist connections, Hollywood still quarrels over the heroes and villains of its Red Scare. The propriety of giving Elia Kazan — one who “named names” — an honorary Oscar in 1999 remains a contentious subject. And only five years ago Stanley Kramer’s widow bitterly battled the makers of a television documentary that depicted her late husband using the blacklist to deny his former partner Carl Foreman a producer’s credit on “High Noon.” But on Monday night in Toronto, one of the era’s acknowledged heroes, the jailed and blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, was expected to deliver some posthumous words that might finally put to rest the hunt for good guys and bad. The admonition occurs in the first few minutes of “Trumbo,” a documentary directed by Peter Askin and written by Trumbo’s son, Christopher Trumbo. The film is making its debut as part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Real to Reel series. In a speech actually delivered in 1970, now re-enacted by the actor David Strathairn, Trumbo said, “There was bad faith and good, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice, selflessness and opportunism, wisdom and stupidity, good and bad on both sides; and almost every individual involved, no matter where he stood, combined some or all of these antithetical qualities in his own person, in his own acts.” The same talk was embedded in a 2003 play, also called “Trumbo,” in which Mr. Askin and Mr. Trumbo had Ed Harris, Nathan Lane, Chris Cooper, Tim Robbins and other actors taking turns during the run playing the lead role, which mostly involved reading from Dalton Trumbo’s remarkably stage-ready personal letters. Having moved those words to the beginning of their documentary — which includes interviews and clips, along with readings by Mr. Strathairn and Mr. Lane, as well as others like Michael Douglas, Joan Allen, Liam Neeson and Paul Giamatti — the director and writer, in effect, declare peace, and clear the way for a look at a beleaguered human being in all of his messy contradictions. (Produced by Safehouse Pictures and Filbert Step Productions, the film isn’t yet set for commercial distribution.) “Things are still hotter than they ever needed to be,” Christopher Trumbo said of Hollywood’s obsession with the blacklist. “As human beings, we tend to personalize things,” Mr. Trumbo noted, speaking by phone on Saturday from his Ojai, Calif., home. “It becomes Hitler rather than Fascism.” Dalton Trumbo, of course, personalized plenty at the time. One of 10 who were jailed for contempt for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, he and hundreds of others were barred from working openly for Hollywood for more than a decade. During years when he lost his beloved ranch in the Southern California mountains, lived in Mexican exile and worked under assumed names, he wrote letters of deep gratitude to those who supported him, like the producer Sam Zimbalist (“Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”), and freely excoriated those who did not. Among his detractors, those who contributed to his fiscal crunch came in for the roughest drubbings. In one 1948 letter — read on screen by Mr. Giamatti — Trumbo, the impoverished screenwriter of “A Bill of Divorcement” and “A Guy Named Joe,” told an official at the local phone company: “When we Reds come into power, we are going to shoot merchants in the following order: (1) those who are greedy, and (2) those who are witty. Since you fall into both categories, it will be a sad story when we finally lay hands on you.” But over the long haul, his son said, Trumbo settled on the view that an evil committee had simply exposed the weakness of many around him.
Both Mr. Askin and Christopher Trumbo are now distant enough from those events to marvel at traits for which Dalton Trumbo most likely would have been remembered, even if his joining the Communist Party in 1943 and subsequent refusal to testify about it had never become an issue. Most striking, for Mr. Askin, was his subject’s urge to memorialize his thoughts in hundreds of private letters that were written and rewritten to professional polish, most in a style that invites precisely the sort of declamation they have been receiving from some of Hollywood’s most skilled actors. (Some were collected in “Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962,” published by M. Evans & Company in 1970.) “He couldn’t wait to get to the mailbox to get the replies,” Mr. Askin said, describing Trumbo’s approach to correspondence in a recent phone interview. “He relished the duel.” Many of the letters exist only because their writer, who died in 1976, kept a huge cache of carbon copies. His son — who had two sisters, Melissa, known as Mitzi, and Nikola — said the file was an outgrowth of Trumbo’s insistence on precision in his many battles. “It’s hard to remember what you said 20 years ago, if they’re going to call you on it,” Mr. Trumbo said of his father. “Given his nature, people were always doing that.” More than a few letters deal with Trumbo’s relentless struggle to regain the good life in the years before his credits on “Spartacus” and “Exodus” in 1960 helped break the blacklist. If a yearning for days when he was reputedly Hollywood’s highest-paid writer seemed contradictory for a card-carrying Communist, that was no more puzzling, Christopher Trumbo said, than his father’s seemingly casual decision to join the party in the first place. “It came as a complete surprise to my mother,” said Mr. Trumbo, who is working on a book about the blacklist. “They had talked about it and decided not to join.” Asked why Hollywood has often seemed less inclined than his father to set aside past sins, Mr. Trumbo said it was because so many were complicit in shutting out the relative few who were actually denied work for their political stance. “People feel guilty about it,” he said. “I think it’s because essentially the community itself recognized that it didn’t have to happen. And they let it happen.”