A Town Like Alice
Year:
1956
Production Country:
Great Britain
Set in a prison camp for men captured in Malaya by the Japanese during World War II, whilst women and children are sent on a series of aimless treks through the jungle.
Cast & credits
Cast
- Jean Paget Virginia Mckenna
- Joe Harman Peter Finch
- Mrs Dudley Frost Marie Löhr
- Ebbey Renée Houston
- Mrs Holland Eileen Moore
- Miss Horsefall Jean Anderson
- Ellen Maureen Swanson
- Mrs Frith Nora Nicholson
- Japanese sergeant Takagi
- Kempetei sergeant Ikeda
- Captain Nishi Nakanishi
- Captain Takata Yamada
- Mat Amin Sanny Bin Hussan
- Captain Sugaya Tran Van Khe
- Captain Yanata Vu Ngoc Tuan
- Mr Holland John Fabian
- solicitor Geoffrey Keen
- Ben Vincent Ball
- British sergeant Tim Turner
- Mrs Graham June Shaw
- Mrs Davies Bay White
- Mrs Lindsay Philippa Morgan
- Mrs Carstairs Armine Sandford
- Mrs Rhodes Gwenda Ewen
- Mrs O'Brien Dorothy Moss
- Daphne Adams Josephine Miller
- Mrs Knowles Virginia Clay
- Mrs Anderson Mary Allen
- Fatima Edwina Carroll
- well digger Charles Marshall
- Brenda Jane White
- Freddie Cameron Moore
- Jane Margaret Eaden
- Michael Rhodes Domenic Lieven
- Timothy Peter John
- Mary Graham Meg Buckenham
- Robin Geoffrey Hawkins
- [.] Maureen Gander
- [.] Joey White
Credits
Direction
- Directed by Jack Lee
- Assistant Director David W. Orton
- Continuity Joan Davis
Production
- ©/Production Company The Rank Organisation Film Productions Ltd
- A Vic Film Production Vic Films (London)
- Presents The Rank Organisation
- closing logo British and Dominions Film Corporation
- Released by J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
- Executive Producer Earl St. John
- Produced by Joseph Janni
- Production Manager Jack Hanbury
- Production Controller for Pinewood Arthur Alcott
- Filmed at Pinewood Studios
Writing
- Screenplay by W.P. Lipscomb
- Screenplay by Richard Mason
- From the novel by Nevil Shute
Photography
- Director of Photography Geoffrey Unsworth
- Camera Operator Jack Atcheler
Editing
- Film Editor Sidney Hayers
Design
- Art Director Alex Vetchinsky
Make-up
- Make-up George Blackler
Music
- Music Composed and Conducted by Matyas Seiber
Sound
- Sound Recordist Geoffrey Daniels
- Sound Recordist Gordon K. McCallum
- Sound System Westrex Recording System
- [Boom Operator] John Brommage
- Sound Editor Harry Miller
- Sound Editor Archie Ludski