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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.
- (1.1K)
- 1981-10-04
- Drama, Romance, War
- 301
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. It was partially filmed in Malaya and Australia.
Sep 29, 2023 · Quite different to the first screen adaptation, with about one third being set after the home-coming
- 316 min
- 30.7K
- AMT2.0 - Remember?
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.
- (1.9K)
- Drama, Romance, War
- Jack Lee
- 1956-06-01
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.Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia to be with him, where she attempts, by investing her substantial financial inheritance, to ...
Town Like Alice, A -- (Movie Clip) Quick At Anything Aussie POW's in Japanese-occupied WWII Malaysia Ben (Vincent Ball) and Joe (Peter Finch) in their first scene, meet refugees from the British embassy, led by Jean (Virginia McKenna), in her flashback, in A Town Like Alice, 1958.
A Town Like Alice (1956) A Town Like Alice (1956) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis This drama, based on the book by Nevil Shute, focuses on Jean Paget (Virginia McKenna), a British office ...
- Drama, War
