A Town Like Alice

A tale of survival.

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.

War Drama Romance

Virginia McKenna

(Jean Paget)

Peter Finch

(Joe Harman)

Tran Van Khe

(Captain Sugaya)

Jean Anderson

(Miss Horsefall)

Marie Lohr

(Mrs. Dudley Frost)

Maureen Swanson

(Ellen)

Renée Houston

(Ebbey)

Nora Nicholson

(Mrs. Frith)

Eileen Moore

(Mrs. Holland)

John Fabian

(Mr. Holland)

Vincent Ball

(Ben)

Vu Ngoc Tuan

(Captain Yanata)

Kenji Takaki

(Japanese Sergeant)

Tim Turner

(British Sergeant)

Munesato Yamada

(Captain Takata)

Otokichi Ikeda

(Kempetei Sergeant)

Geoffrey Keen

(Solicitor)

June Shaw

(Mrs Graham)

Virginia Clay

(Mrs Knowles)

Bay White

(Mrs Davies)

Edwina Carroll

(Fatima)

Sanny Bin Hussan

(Mat Amin)

Margaret Eaden

(Jane)

Dominic Lieven

(Michael Rhodes)

Peter John

(Timothy)

Meg Buckenham

(Mary Graham)

Sam Kydd

(Australian Driver)

Russell Napier

(Jack Burns)

Martin Voss

(Passenger)

Ernest Blyth

(Prisoner)

Norman Morris

(Prisoner)

John Wilder

(Prisoner)

Ah Chong Choy

(Malay Driver)

Garard Green

(Australian POW)

Eric D. Henderson

(Australian POW)

Charles Gilliard

(Prisoner)

Charles Rayford