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Malaya is a 1949 American war thriller film set in colonial Malaya during World War II directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Spencer Tracy, James Stewart and Valentina Cortese. The supporting cast features Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak, and Lionel Barrymore, with Richard Loo and Gilbert Roland. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Malay Film Productions Kampung Sentosa (Tranquil Village) B. Reaves E. Elliot: Mohd Nor Lambak, Raja Hamidah Raja Saat: Sound Master (New York) Company 1949: Nasib (Fate) B. S. Rajhans: S. Roomai Noor, Siput Sarawak, Haji Gong, Tina, Daeng Harris, P. Ramlee, Jaafar Wiryo: Drama: Malay Film Productions Entered into the 1950 BFI London Film ...
The film's soundtrack contains a mixture of genres, including pop, classical, and Latin music. Melchior performs three operatic arias. Near the end of the film, Cugat's band singer Lina Romay and Cugat perform the "Chiquita Banana" song before they are interrupted by Dick (Johnny Johnston) to sing "You'd Be So Easy to Love" with Romay, who joins in with him, to the bandleader's perplexity.
The Life of Riley: Irving Brecher: William Bendix, Rosemary DeCamp, James Gleason: Comedy: Universal: Little Women: Mervyn LeRoy: Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, June Allyson: Family: MGM; from Louisa May Alcott novel The Lone Wolf and His Lady: John Hoffman: Ron Randell, June Vincent, Alan Mowbray: Mystery: Columbia. Last of series: Look ...
This war had similarities with the First Indochina War in Vietnam; both the French and the British returned to establish their colonial rule after Japanese occupation, both granted a high degree of autonomy to their own indigenous states (Vietnam on 8/3/1949 and Malaya on 1/2/1948), both had to fight communist anti-colonial rebellions as part ...
After the war he kept in touch with his war comrades for the rest of his life. After the war, Boulle returned to work for a while in the plantations of SOCFIN in Malaya, in 1949 [6] he moved back to Paris and began to write, drawing from his memories of Malaya and Indochina. While in Paris, too poor to afford his own flat, he lived in a hotel ...
The Mountain Road is a 1960 war film starring James Stewart and directed by Daniel Mann.Set in China and based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist-historian Theodore H. White, [2] the film follows the attempts of a U.S. Army major to destroy bridges and roads potentially useful to the Japanese during World War II and the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Communities Liaison Committee (CLC) was established in 1949 [1] by the British rulers of Malaysia, comprising the top echelon of Malayan politicians from different communities, to address sensitive issues, especially those related to ethnicity.