A Town Like Alice (1956)

Directed by

Jack Lee

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman is taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War Two and forced to march with other women across Malaya. After the war she returns to Australia and uses her inheritance to build a new community.

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What happens

A Town Like Alice (also known as The Rape of Malaya) is a 1956 British drama film directed by Jack Lee and starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch. It was written by W. P. Lipscomb and Richard Mason 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 and produced by Joseph Janni. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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