Discover the timeless classic A Town Like Alice on Blu-Ray starring Jack Lee and Virginia McKenna

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If these steps don't work, then unfortunately subtitles are not optional. o We now offer FREE SHIPPING to anywhere in the world! FILM DETAILS Alternate Title: Rape of Malaya Screened, competed or awarded at: BAFTA Awards Other Film Festival Awards Language Selections: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ) English ( Subtitles ) Portuguese ( Subtitles ) Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ) Spanish ( Subtitles ) Product Origin/Format: Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C ) Running Time: 116 min Aspect Ratio: Widescreen (1.66:1) Special Features: Interactive Menu Scene Access Movie filmed in 1956 and produced in: Country: United Kingdom ( Region: Great Britain, Ireland ) Directed By: Jack Lee Written By: W.P. Lipscomb Richard Mason Actors: Virginia McKenna ..... Jean Paget Peter Finch ..... Joe Harman Kenji Takaki ..... Japanese Sergeant (as Takagi) Tran Van Khe ..... Captain Sugaya Jean Anderson ..... Miss Horsefall Marie Lohr ..... Mrs. Dudley Frost Maureen Swanson ..... Ellen Renee Houston ..... Ebbey Nora Nicholson ..... Mrs. Frith Eileen Moore ..... Mrs. Holland John Fabian ..... Mr. Holland Vincent Ball ..... Ben Tim Turner ..... British Sergeant Vu Ngoc Tuan ..... Captain Yanata Munesato Yamada ..... Captain Takata Synopsis: At the conclusion of World War II Jean Paget decides to return to Malaya and build a well for the people of the village that sheltered her and several other British expatriates after the Japanese invasion. When taken prisoner, the men were immediately transferred to a prison camp but the women and children go on a forced march, one that never seems to end as no camp commander will take them in. Along the way, many will die but Jean befriends an Australian soldier, Joe Harman, himself a prisoner who does his best to help the women by providing them with bits of food and medicine. Harman oversteps however and the cruel Japanese camp commander has him nailed to a tree. Jean never forgot the brave Australian who helped her and the others but she isn't prepared for the news she receives when she returns to the Malayan village. A harrowing WWII drama that was a huge critical and commercial success in England, this British production was based on a novel by Nevil Shute. During the war, a group of prisoners, mostly women and children, are led by Japanese soldiers on a brutal march through Malaysia. Some die by the roadside and others are sadistically tortured. One of the women, Jean Paget (Virginia McKenna), is befriended by an Australian man who is also a prisoner of war, Joe Harman (Peter Finch). Joe tells Jean about his hometown of Alice Springs, an oasis in the Australian outback. When he steals a chicken to feed Jean and the others, Joe is caught and treated ruthlessly. The Japanese force Jean and the others to march on while Joe is put on a crucifix and left to die. In 1941, 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. A group is sent on a forced march from place to place searching for a Women's Camp. Told from the point of view of one of the women, she meets an Australian soldier who sneaks food for them from his labor camp. After the war, she goes to Australia to see the town he was from and settles there, finding a different problem there from being a woman.