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Released 1956, a town like alice stars virginia mckenna, peter finch, kenji takaki, jean anderson the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 47 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic. A town like alice is one of those classic stories, and based on a true story of survival of a forced march, combined with a love story and an exciting success story of growing a new town in the outback of australia. Its very well cast with helen morse and bryan brown in the major roles and gordon jackson perfect as the sympathetic narrator. A town like alice miniseries wikipedia republished. A town like alice, nevil shutes novel of the japanese occupation of malaya during world war ii, was first filmed as a theatrical feature in 1956. This version of a town like alice the second adapted screen offering of the 1950 novel by the english author nevil shute. May 17, 2016 a town like alice hit around the same time as movies like picnic at hanging rock and breaker morant, while the original mad max was being filmed around the same time that we shot. Set against the brutal chaos of world war ii, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of cap. This is the story of one woman, of her ordeal, and of how she was saved by the sacrifice of an australian soldier. Many years ago i saw a town like alice, and remember the ending distinctly. A town like alice 1956 stream and watch online moviefone.
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