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Bookmark this pageA Town Like Alice (1956)
Director: Jack Lee
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This adaptation of Nevil Shute's best-seller looks dated now that the cinema is rather less reticent in depicting wartime brutalities. Needless to say, it's stiff upper-lips and Japanese stereotypes all round as a group of female PoWs suffer at the hands of their captors. The US release title, The Rape of Malaya, was more explicit than the movie itself, and the bogus sets don't help much either. BBC TV's long-running series Tenko capitalised on the same formula.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Jack Lee
Producer: Joseph Janni
Cast: Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Takagi, Marie Lohr, Maureen Swanson, Jean Anderson, Renee Houston, Nora Nicholson, Geoffrey Keen full cast
Duration: 117 mins
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