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A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice1956

★6.4117 minWarDramaRomance

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.

Director

Writer

Richard Mason W.P. Lipscomb

Score

Stars

Virginia McKenna Peter Finch Tran Van Khe

Cast37

Virginia McKenna
as Jean Paget
Peter Finch
as Joe Harman
Tran Van Khe
as Captain Sugaya
Jean Anderson
as Miss Horsefall
Marie Lohr
as Mrs. Dudley Frost
Maureen Swanson
as Ellen
Renée Houston
as Ebbey
Nora Nicholson
as Mrs. Frith
Eileen Moore
as Mrs. Holland
John Fabian
as Mr. Holland
Vincent Ball
as Ben
Vu Ngoc Tuan
as Captain Yanata
Kenji Takaki
as Japanese Sergeant
Tim Turner
as British Sergeant
M
Munesato Yamada
as Captain Takata
O
Otokichi Ikeda
as Kempetei Sergeant
Geoffrey Keen
as Solicitor
J
June Shaw
as Mrs Graham
V
Virginia Clay
as Mrs Knowles
B
Bay White
as Mrs Davies
Edwina Carroll
as Fatima
S
Sanny Bin Hussan
as Mat Amin
M
Margaret Eaden
as Jane
D
Dominic Lieven
as Michael Rhodes
P
Peter John
as Timothy
M
Meg Buckenham
as Mary Graham
Sam Kydd
as Australian Driver
Russell Napier
as Jack Burns
M
Martin Voss
as Passenger
E
Ernest Blyth
as Prisoner (uncredited)
N
Norman Morris
as Prisoner
J
John Wilder
as Prisoner (uncredited)
A
Ah Chong Choy
as Malay Driver
G
Garard Green
as Australian POW
E
Eric D. Henderson
as Australian POW
C
Charles Gilliard
as Prisoner
C
Charles Rayford

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