A Town Like Alice
1956
A young English woman survives a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and later makes her way to Australia, where she falls in love with a cattle station manager and seeks news of a fellow prisoner she came to care for. Based on Nevil Shute's novel, the film is an epic wartime romance spanning Malaya and the Australian outback.
Director
- Jack Lee
Cast
- Virginia McKenna
- Peter Finch
- Kenji Takagi
- Tran Van Khe
- Jean Anderson
- Marie Lohr
- Maureen Swanson
- Renee Houston
Filming Locations
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Burnham Beeches
Some jungle scenes were filmed here.
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Pinewood Studios
The Malayan jungle and prisoner-of-war march sequences were recreated at Pinewood, with the cold ponds of nearby Burnham Beeches doubling for the humid swamps of Malaya.