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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.
- (1.8K)
- Drama, Romance, War
- Jack Lee
- 1956-06-01
A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British drama film produced by Joseph Janni and starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch that is based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. The film does not follow the whole novel, concluding at the end of part two and truncating or omitting much detail.
- 1 March 1956
- Joseph Janni
This drama, based on the book by Nevil Shute, focuses on Jean Paget (Virginia McKenna), a British office worker captured by the Japanese in Malaysia during World War II.
- (44)
- Jack Lee
- Drama, War
- Virginia Mckenna
In 1941, 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. A group is sent on a forced march from place to place searching for a Women's Camp.
A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.
- 359 pp
- Nevil Shute
- 1950
- Heinemann
Noel Strachan. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. An Englishwoman (Helen Morse) and an Australian prisoner of war (Bryan Brown) meet on Malaya, then reunite after World War II.
- Drama
About. A Town Like Alice. DRAMA. Peter Finch and Virginia McKenna star in this award-winning adaptation of Nevil Shute’s moving novel. Jean, a prisoner in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, meets a captive Australian, Joe, and the two form a mutually affectionate relationship. He tells her of his home town and how he hopes to return.
