A town like Alice

Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns tht the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other.

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"Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns that the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other."
"Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns tht the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other."@en
"Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns tht the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other."
"In this grim and often moving drama of survival during World War II a group of British women and children is forced by the Japanese to trek through the jungle. No Japanese officer will take responsibility for them and they are threatened by starvation and disease. An Australian helps them to survive and he forms a relationship with the group's leader. The stoic understatement injects a quiet intensity into the drama as familiar English types take on a new meaning."@en
"Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns that the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other."@en
"Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of captive women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns that the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other."@en
"A party of women are forced to trek through the Malayan jungle during World War Two because no Japanese officer will take responsibility for their welfare."@en
"Story about a party of women compelled to trek through the Malayan jungle during World War II. Based on Nevil Shute's best selling novel, the film tells how the women come to terms with their hardships, and how they are befriended by a tough Australian prisoner of war who dreams of returning to his home town of Alice Springs."
"Feature film from the UK. Drama. Screen adaptation of the Nevil Shute novel. An Australian POW helps an English nurse on a forced march in Japanese-occupied Malaya. Once the war is over she looks for him again."
"Following the fall of Singapore Jean Paget (McKenna) becomes, along with many other British women, a prisoner of the Japanese in occupied Malaya, forced on death marches from camp to camp. During these marches Jean meets Australian POW Joe Harman (Finch). In an effort to relieve the sufferings of the women Joe steals chickens and is caught and sentenced to be executed. Years later Jean returns to Malaya and learns that Joe may have survived. Jean travels to Joe's beloved outback Australian town of 'Alice' to try to find the man she loves. A love story showing stoic understatement in an intense drama of hideous Japanese cruelty, starvation, disease and horror."@en
"Jean, a prisoner in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, meets a captive Australian, Joe, and the two form a mutually affectionate relationship. He tells her of his home town, Alice Springs, and how he hopes to return. To relieve the starvation of the female prisoners Joe steals some chickens, but is caught and sentenced to be executed by the Japanese. Later, Jean learns that Joe did not actually die, and resolves to find him."
"A classic war movie like no other, because it is told from a woman's perspective. Based on the moving novel by Nevil Shute. It is set during WWII in British Malaya, 1941."
"During World War II, 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 is befriended by an Australian prisoner of war, and a bond forms between the two captives."
"After being caputured by the Japanese, a group of women and children are forced to trek across Malaya."@en