The Planter's Wife

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. 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. The movie was originally known as White Blood. Background location footage was shot in Malaya but for safety reasons during the ongoing Emergency, much of the filming was done in Ceylon. The film was the sixth most popular movie of the year at the British box office in 1952.
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