A Town Like Alice (1956)
1956 · Feature film · 111 min · dir. Jack Lee
A tale of survival.
- War
- Drama
- Romance
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Jack Lee
- Writer
- Nevil Shute
- Composer
- Matyas Seiber
- Cinematography
- Geoffrey Unsworth
- Studio
- The Rank Organisation, Vic Films Productions
- Released
- 1956-03-01
- Awards
- Won 2 BAFTA 2 wins & 5 nominations total
- Running time
- 111 minutes
Cast & crew
Jack Lee Director
Virginia McKenna
Peter Finch
Tran Van Khe
Jean Anderson
Marie Lohr
Maureen Swanson
Renée Houston
Nora Nicholson
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Meh · reshen68@gmail.com · 2019-11-14
Would have greatly benefited by hewing more closely to Shute's excellent novel. It was almost as if the film's creators had somehow reached into the future and accessed Amazon/Kindle's wretched abridged version of the novel and wrote a screenplay based upon it rather than the original work.
