
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.
Cast

Claudette Colbert
Agnes Newton Keith

Patric Knowles
Harry Keith

Florence Desmond
Betty Sommers

Sessue Hayakawa
Colonel Michio Suga

Sylvia Andrew
Henrietta

Mark Keuning
George Keith
Phyllis Morris
Sister Rose
Howard Chuman
Lieutenant Nekata
Patrick Whyte
Englishman
Jerry Fujikawa
Japanese Soldier

Lee MacGregor
Sailor
John Burton
Elderly Resident (uncredited)

Siti Zainab
Woman Prisoner (uncredited)
Crew

Jean Negulesco
Director

Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay, Producer
Agnes Newton Keith
Book

Dorothy Spencer
Editor

Milton Krasner
Director of Photography
Saul Wurtzel
Assistant Director
Paul Lockwood
Camera Operator
Esperanza Corona
Hairstylist
Ben Nye
Makeup Artist

Hugo Friedhofer
Original Music Composer
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
Fred J. Rode
Set Decoration
Ray Nolan
Still Photographer
Helen Thurston
Stunt Double
Don B. Greenwood
Property Master
Robert R. Snody
Production Manager
Leland Fuller
Art Direction
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction
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