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A Town Like Alice is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950, about a woman who inherits a fortune and falls in love with a prisoner of war in Malaya. She uses her money to develop a small town in the Australian outback, where she reunites with her lover and marries him.
A film adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel about a woman's ordeal in Malaya during World War II and her reunion with a soldier in Australia. The film stars Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch and was partially shot in Malaya and Australia.
A historical fiction novel about a young Englishwoman's survival and adventure in Malaya and Australia during World War II. Read ratings, reviews, quotes, and more on Goodreads, the world's largest community for readers.
Based on Nevil Shute's novel, the film follows the story of a group of women and children who escape from Japanese prisoners of war in Malaya during World War II. They meet an Australian soldier who helps them and falls in love with one of them, Jean Paget, played by Virginia McKenna.
English. Runtime. 3h 3m. An Englishwoman (Helen Morse) and an Australian prisoner of war (Bryan Brown) meet on Malaya, then reunite after World War II.
A Town Like Alice. 1956 1h 47m Drama War CTA List. Tomatometer 3 Reviews 77% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings. This drama, based on the book by Nevil Shute, focuses on Jean Paget (Virginia McKenna), a...
A Town Like Alice: With Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, John Lee. Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
