

A Town Like Alice
A tale of survival.
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.
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- Language
- English
- australia
- based on novel or book
- world war ii
- prisoner of war
- japanese occupation
- black and white
- malaya
- 1940s
- kuala lumpur malaysia
- alice springs
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR20 Sept 1956
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG1 Mar 1956
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG1 Jun 1956
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A Town Like Alice was released on 1 March 1956.
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5/4/2024
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 t…
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