The Planter's Wife

The Planter's Wife
The Planter's Wife

Theatrical poster
Directed by Ken Annakin
Produced by John Stafford
Written by Guy Elmes
Sidney Charles George (novel)
Starring Claudette Colbert
Jack Hawkins
Music by Allan Gray
Cinematography Geoffrey Unsworth
Editing by Alfred Roome
Studio Pinnacle Productions
Distributed by General Film Distributors
Pinnacle Pictures
United Artists
Release date(s) November, 1952
Running time 88 min.
Country United Kingdom
Language English

The Planter's Wife is a 1952 British drama film directed by Ken Annakin, and starring Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins and Anthony Steel. It is set against the backdrop of the Malayan Emergency and focuses on a rubber planter and his neighbours who are fending off a campaign of sustained attacks by Communist insurgents while also struggling to save their marriage. The film was retitled Outpost in Malaya in the USA.

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Plot

It tells the adventurous story of rubber grower and his wife, whose plantation is destroyed by terrorists in the Malayan Emergency. Despite facing problems from Communist terrorists and his own wife wishing to leave him, the family unites to defend their plantation from an attack at the film's climax.

The film's director later made Swiss Family Robinson for Disney. In addition to the end battle, the film also features a fight to the death between a cobra and a mongoose.

Cast

  • Claudette Colbert as Liz Frazer
  • Jack Hawkins as Jim Frazer
  • Anthony Steel as Hugh Dobson
  • Ram Gopal as Nair
  • Jeremy Spenser as Mat
  • Tom Macaulay as Jack Bushell
  • Helen Goss as Eleanor Bushell
  • Sonya Hana as Ah Mov
  • Andy Ho as Wan Li
  • Peter Asher as Mike Frazer
  • Yah Ming as Ah Siong
  • Shaym Bahadur as Putra
  • Ng Cheuk Kwong as Ho Tang
  • Bryan Coleman as Capt. Dell
  • Don Sharp as Lt. Summers

Filming locations

Background location footage was shot in Malay but for safety reasons during the ongoing Emergency, much of the filming was done in Ceylon.

External links

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1940s
It Began on the Clyde (1946) · Fenlands (1946) · Holiday Camp (1947) · Miranda (1948) · Broken Journey (1948) · Here Come the Huggetts (1948) · Vote for Huggett (1949) · The Huggetts Abroad (1949) · Landfall (1949)
1950s
Double Confession (1950) · Hotel Sahara (1951) · The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) · The Planter's Wife (1952) · The Sword and the Rose (1953) · You Know What Sailors Are (1954) · The Seekers (1954) · Value for Money (1955) · Loser Takes All (1956) · Three Men in a Boat (1956) · Across the Bridge (1957) · Nor the Moon by Night (1958) · Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
1960s
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