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A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.
A drama based on a true story of English women refugees in Malaya during World War II and their encounter with an Australian soldier. IMDb provides cast and crew, trivia, plot summary, ratings, reviews, and more for this classic film.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Jack Lee
- 1956-06-01
A Town Like Alice is a 1981 drama romance war mini series based on Nevil Shute's novel. It follows the love story of Jean Paget and Joe Harman, who meet and are separated during World War II in Malaya and Australia.
A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British drama film produced by Joseph Janni and starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch that is based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. The film does not follow the whole novel, concluding at the end of part two and truncating or omitting much detail.
Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her.
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The Japanese town major, a Captain Nisui, came to inspect them that evening; he had known nothing about them till they appeared in his town. This was quite usual and Jean was ready for it; she explained that they were prisoners being marched to camp in Singapore.
This drama, based on the book by Nevil Shute, focuses on Jean Paget (Virginia McKenna), a British office worker captured by the Japanese in Malaysia during...
- Drama, War
