Virginia McKenna
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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.
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.
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- Jack Lee
- 15
- Charles Rayford
- 117 min
Based on Nevil Shute's novel, the film tells the story of an English nurse and a Japanese prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II. Starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch, the film won two BAFTA awards and was shot in Malaysia.
- (1.9K)
- Drama, Romance, War
- Jack Lee
- 1956-06-01
A drama based on a novel by Nevil Shute, starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch. Jean Paget, a British prisoner of war, searches for her former captor and lover, Joe Harman, in post-war Australia.
- (45)
- Jack Lee
- Drama, War
- Virginia Mckenna
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 generate economic prosperity in a small outback community—to turn it into "a town like Alice" i ...
Jul 22, 2022 · An Englishwoman (Helen Morse) and an Australian prisoner of war (Bryan Brown) meet on Malaya, then reunite after World War II.
- Drama
