Ralph P. Modder

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Ralph P. Modder

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in Perak, Malaysia
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A veteran Singaporean author, journalist and screenplay writer. Born in Chemor, Perak (Malaya) in 1923 and educated in Singapore, then a British colony. After the surrender of Japan in 1945, he worked as a journalist in Singapore and Hong Kong. He wrote the original stories and screenplays for six feature films produced in Singapore, including the classic Sergeant Hassan. The film had a Royal Charity Premiere in Kuala Lumpur in 1958 in aid of the widows and orphans of members of the Malay Regiment who died heroically before Singapore surrendered to the Japanese on 15 February, 1942. The charity premiere was under the patronage of the King and Queen of Malaysia and rulers of the various Malaysian states.
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Souls the Gods Had Forsaken

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