"This film is the personal favorite of producer Hope Ryden: "You couldn’t dare write a script as exciting as this turned out to be." On her first night as a Peace Corps nurse, Marjorie Benning tends to a pregnant Malayan woman who needs emergency surgery. The nearest hospital is six hours away, across the Strait of Malacca. Nurse and patient, Ryden and cinematographer Sidney Reichman, make the treacherous trip in an open boat in darkness, to avoid attracting Indonesian pirates. - Jill Drew, daughter-in-law of Robert Drew and General Manager of Drew Associates"
| Release Date: | Jan 1, 1964 |
| Running Time: | 52 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
"Mission to Malaya" tells the moving story of a young Peace Corps volunteer's first days in her new and demanding life on the Malayan island of Langkawi, where she is replacing another Peace Corps nurse who had become a legend among the islanders.
