A Town Like Alice
"A tale of survival."
WarDramaRomance
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
🎬 DirectorJack Lee
📅 Release1956-03-01
🌍 CountryUnited Kingdom
🗣 LanguageEnglish
🏢 StudioThe Rank Organisation, Vic Films Productions
🗳 Votes32
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🎭 Cast
Virginia McKenna
Jean Paget
Peter Finch
Joe Harman
Tran Van Khe
Captain Sugaya
Jean Anderson
Miss Horsefall
Marie Lohr
Mrs. Dudley Frost
Maureen Swanson
Ellen
Renée Houston
Ebbey
Nora Nicholson
Mrs. Frith
Eileen Moore
Mrs. Holland
John Fabian
Mr. Holland
Vincent Ball
Ben
Vu Ngoc Tuan
Captain Yanata
Kenji Takaki
Japanese Sergeant
Tim Turner
British Sergeant
Munesato Yamada
Captain Takata
🎥 Crew
NovelNevil Shute
ScreenplayRichard Mason
Executive ProducerEarl St. John
Director of PhotographyGeoffrey Unsworth
Original Music ComposerMatyas Seiber
Art DirectionAlex Vetchinsky
EditorSidney Hayers
ScreenplayW.P. Lipscomb
DirectorJack Lee
ProducerJoseph Janni
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🏷 Keywords
australiabased on novel or bookworld war iiprisoner of warjapanese occupationblack and whitemalaya1940skuala lumpur malaysiaalice springs
💬 Reviews
Virginia McKenna takes on the role as a dispossessed British colonial secretary forced into captivity/slavery and to fight for her very survival by the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1941 and who is, together with a group of similarly forsaken women, shunted around from camp to camp before finally being pretty much abandoned to the wilderness by the Japanese Army. Unusually, for many films made…
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