A Town Like Alice

6.3

117 minutes

3/1/1956

Overview

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.

Cast List

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
Munesato Yamada
as Captain Takata
Otokichi Ikeda
as Kempetei Sergeant
Geoffrey Keen
as Solicitor
June Shaw
as Mrs Graham
Virginia Clay
as Mrs Knowles
Bay White
as Mrs Davies
Edwina Carroll
as Fatima
Sanny Bin Hussan
as Mat Amin
Margaret Eaden
as Jane
Dominic Lieven
as Michael Rhodes
Peter John
as Timothy
Meg Buckenham
as Mary Graham
Sam Kydd
as Australian Driver
Russell Napier
as Jack Burns
Martin Voss
as Passenger
Ernest Blyth
as Prisoner
Norman Morris
as Prisoner
John Wilder
as Prisoner
Ah Chong Choy
as Malay Driver
Garard Green
as Australian POW
Eric D. Henderson
as Australian POW
Charles Gilliard
as Prisoner
Charles Rayford