Show Colbert Stirring Star Of Poignant New Nev Drama At Egyptian Twentieth Fox Century has achieved a e portrait of a n womans woman's anguish anda and a aI I womans woman's courage that will lIvo live on In Inthe lD n the minds of those who see It for fora a 8 along a long Jong time to come The picture Is Agnes Agues Newton Keiths Keith's autobiographical story Three Came Home and It opens Sunday at the Egyptian Theatre With Claudette Colbert to portray Mrs lim Keith herself in that celebrated actress' actress most 1 Impressive of characterizations with a a. a magnificent t stealing show performance by the th great Japanese a actor t H ayakawa with with the thea brilliant control of I tho the director Jean and the producer pr ducer Nunnally Johnson who also I wrote the screenplay everywhere In evl- evl evidence I dence and with the of studio chief Three Came Home can hardly fall fail to score heavily Three Came Home has baa the taste to todeal todeal todeal deal with utter simplicity and utmost I sincerity In the tragedy that befalls a a. small Email knit closely-knit family unit living In Borneo just before the outbreak of the Pacific War Harry Keith a British Colonial Official urges his American American- born wife to return to the States and escape the Impending conflict but she elects to stay devotedly by her hus hUS- husbands husband's hUSbands hUSband's husbands husband's bands band's side When Japan strikes Mrs Keith and their small son George arc are sent to one prison compound Harry Keith to another Then begin agonizing I trials and unappeased longings The war and tho the struggle for tor life lle as IlS seen n through the eyes of o a n loving family unit are far more affecting than when viewed in ini i terms terms of or the battle scenes of conven conven- conventional conventional conventional war films With honesty and great feeling the hardships illnesses and indignities that Mrs Keith and the tho other women suffer I j are shown At all aU times tunes realistic but butI I I sensitive the movie never lets you for tor- forget torget forget get that this is a real story about real people and that what Is being re recorded re- re recorded recorded I corded on film is a visualization of Mrs Keiths Keith's actual published story It IS la in inthis Inthis I this respect that the deeply genuine I quality Miss Colbert brings to her role rolo j p becomes of o such great Importance to I the film j I Three Came Home has been care care- carefully carefully I fully cast in its less prominent parts as well Patrie Patric Knowles is the heroic Harry Keith Florence Desmond a night club and ana musical comedy star who Is essaying her first serious role with sharp success Is a helpful friend of ot Mrs Keiths Keith's and and I Ithe the various others are arc all exceedingly good A handsome child chUd and a player trained far beyond his years Mark Keuning plays George the small Keith boy I I |