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A Town Like Alice: Directed by Jack Lee. With Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki, Tran Van Khe. A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war.
A Town Like Alice: With Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, John Lee. Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
A Town Like Alice (1956) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
A Town Like Alice is a different kettle of fish, so to speak: instead of a single family, it's a mix of various women and children caught up in the retreat to Singapore in 1941, and follows their seemingly unending trek across Malaya, from camp to camp, seeking admission and a final resting place to wait out the war.
Based on Nevil Shute's international bestselling novel A TOWN LIKE ALICE follows the lives of Jean Paget and Joe Harman. Meeting in Malaya - she an attractive young English captive and he a cheerful Australian POW tortured for a simple act of kindness.
A Town Like Alice (TV Mini Series 1981) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Jean Paget is to inherit her uncle McFadden's estate, and while explaining about life in Malaya during WWII, she tells solicitor Noel Strachan about how she and a group of women and children captured by the Japanese had to walk to a camp. 8.4/10 (19) Rate.
A Town Like Alice: Directed by Jack Lee. With Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki, Tran Van Khe. A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war.
By what name was A Town Like Alice (1956) officially released in India in English? Please see our guide to updating awards. See more gaps.
The "Alice" of the film's title A Town Like Alice (1956) refers to the town of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. According to a December 28, 1956 article in the Manchester (UK) Guardian, this was the third most popular film in the UK in 1956 after Reach for the Sky (1956) and Private's Progress (1956) .
