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A Town Like Alice

A tale of survival.

6.4(35)19561h 57m2

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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Status
Released
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Box office
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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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Director

Jack Lee

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • 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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    CinemaSerf

    5/4/2024

    7/10

    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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