Virginia McKenna

Peter Finch

Tran Van Khe

Jean Anderson

Marie Lohr

Maureen Swanson

Renée Houston

Nora Nicholson

Eileen Moore

John Fabian

Vincent Ball

Vu Ngoc Tuan

Kenji Takaki

Tim Turner

Munesato Yamada

Otokichi Ikeda

Geoffrey Keen

June Shaw

Virginia Clay

Bay White

Edwina Carroll

Sanny Bin Hussan

Margaret Eaden

Dominic Lieven

Peter John

Meg Buckenham

Sam Kydd

Russell Napier

Martin Voss

Ernest Blyth

Norman Morris

John Wilder

Ah Chong Choy

Garard Green

Eric D. Henderson

Charles Gilliard

Charles Rayford

Nevil Shute

Richard Mason

Earl St. John

Geoffrey Unsworth

Matyas Seiber

Alex Vetchinsky

Sidney Hayers

W.P. Lipscomb

Jack Lee

Joseph Janni

Drama

Romance

A Town Like Alice

The Rank Organisation

Vic Films Productions

United Kingdom

English

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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 it does indicate that there was a certain element of "chivalry" offered to the women by their captors - and in some cases these soldiers were treated just as harshly by their own side as collaborators as were many of the women. The story itself develops into a gentle love story as she encounters Australian POW Peter Finch who helps them procure food, and who is "crucified" for his troubles. The film is, at times, too simplistic - but that adds to the poignancy. The relentlessness and horror of their existence - contrasted against their upper/middle class, servant supported, previous lives is writ large. Marie Lohr and a wonderful Jean Anderson (whom you might remember reprised some of her role in the excellent BBC serial "Tenko" from the early 1980s) deliver strongly too.

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