A Town Like Alice
A tale of survival.
Overview
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.
- Production
- The Rank Organisation, Vic Films Productions
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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
Geoffrey Keen
Solicitor
Edwina Carroll
Fatima
Sam Kydd
Australian Driver
Russell Napier
Jack Burns
Crew
- Director
- Jack Lee
- Writers
- Richard Mason,W.P. Lipscomb
- Producers
- Joseph Janni,Earl St. John
- Cinematography
- Geoffrey Unsworth
- Composer
- Matyas Seiber
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CinemaSerf
May 4, 2024
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 immediately after the war, it tries to offer some semblance of balance between conquerors and conqu…