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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.
Hodiak was down the cast list for The Bribe (1949). He was second billed in MGM's war film Battleground (1949), a huge success. Also popular was Malaya (1949) where Hodiak supported James Stewart and Spencer Tracy. Hodiak was a love rival for Robert Taylor in Ambush (1950), a popular Western.
8 October – The establishment of University of Malaya from the merger of King Edward VII College of Medicine and Raffles College in Selangor. 4 November – A Malay named Ismail bin Awang killed seven people and wounded at least four others in Sungai Dua, Penang. Unknown date – The Communities Liaison Committee (CLC) was established.
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 ...
The same year, he was cast as Duncan Glowrie in the episode "Bonnie Lassie" of The Gale Storm Show. From 1955 to 1958, he appeared three times on the sitcom The People's Choice . In 1957, Wilcox guest-starred in the episode "Quicksilver" of Sugarfoot , as a young frontier law student.
3 People. 4 Other uses. ... Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is ... Malaya, a 1949 American war film set in ...
This article lists the squads for the 1949 Thomas Cup participating teams. The age listed for each player is on 22 February 1949 which was the first day of the ...
Colonel Tun Sir Henry Lee Hau Shik (1900-1988), first Finance Minister of the Federation of Malaya and co-founded the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) Dato' Sri Utama Karpal Singh (1940-2014), politician and lawyer; Lim Guan Eng (born 1960), politician and member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly