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A Town Like Alice( 1956)

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Virginia McKenna

      Jean Paget

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      Peter Finch

      Joe Harman

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      Tran Van Khe

      Captain Sugaya

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      Jean Anderson

      Miss Horsefall

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      Marie Lohr

      Mrs. Dudley Frost

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      Maureen Swanson

      Ellen

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      Renée Houston

      Ebbey

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      Nora Nicholson

      Mrs. Frith

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      Eileen Moore

      Mrs. Holland

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      John Fabian

      Mr. Holland

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      Vincent Ball

      Ben

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      Vu Ngoc Tuan

      Captain Yanata

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      Kenji Takaki

      Japanese Sergeant

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      Tim Turner

      British Sergeant

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      Munesato Yamada

      Captain Takata

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      Otokichi Ikeda

      Kempetei Sergeant

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      Geoffrey Keen

      Solicitor

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      June Shaw

      Mrs Graham

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      Virginia Clay

      Mrs Knowles

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      Bay White

      Mrs Davies

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      Edwina Carroll

      Fatima

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      Sanny Bin Hussan

      Mat Amin

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      Margaret Eaden

      Jane

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      Dominic Lieven

      Michael Rhodes

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      Peter John

      Timothy

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      Meg Buckenham

      Mary Graham

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      Sam Kydd

      Australian Driver

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      Russell Napier

      Jack Burns

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      Martin Voss

      Passenger

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      Ernest Blyth

      Prisoner

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      Norman Morris

      Prisoner

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      John Wilder

      Prisoner

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      Ah Chong Choy

      Malay Driver

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      Garard Green

      Australian POW

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      Eric D. Henderson

      Australian POW

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      Charles Gilliard

      Prisoner

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      Charles Rayford

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sat May 04 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 conquered. In no way does it attempt to deny or ameliorate the atrocities perpetrated on the prisoners but...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • australia
    • based on novel or book
    • world war ii
    • prisoner of war
    • japanese occupation
    • malaya
    • 1940s
    • kuala lumpur malaysia
    • alice springs