 In a memo to President Roosevelt, Boddy outlined a plan to get rubber out of Japanese-held Malaya.Three weeks after he had written the memo, Boddy received a letter from the President thanking him for the idea and telling him that the operation was under way.Whether or not the operation actually took place, the story became the basis of the 1950 Hollywood film "Malaya", in which the character "John Manchester," portrayed by Lionel Barrymore, was based on Boddy.