A TOWN LIKE ALICE (Full Movie)

[@StevenAaa-uc6lg]

Heartbreaking - yet such a beautiful film . With the lovely Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch together with a great supporting cast .

[@Stormlucy111]

Wonderful movie! Thank you for posting!

[@kerryhorwitz4093]

My English woman's thoughts are that when you're in a dreadful jam, a couple of Australian blokes is exactly what is needed. God bless Australia ❤

[@ScottieMcClue]

God Bless Australia 🇦🇺

[@jomama5186]

I ❤ the way the wimen dressed and carried themselves. What happened ??? Those dresses were so tailored and neat looking

[@TechnikMeister2]

Every baby boomer Australia, specially with parents who were in WW2, read the book or watched the movie. Its a classic that is close to what really happened but for the actual location. My own father was a Kokoda and New Britain veteran and saw the worst of it. The premier was in Sydney and Peter Finch and Virginia were there. So were some real survivors, my father said. She mounted the stage and led the audience in prayer for those who had died. The ending is one of the most moving of all time. They did it in one take because of the emotion that flowed after the scene.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Outstanding-Thank You-In Scotland in the 1960s we studied The Book in School families had people who had been imprisoned in Japanese Camps in WW2 my own father was posted to many intense theatres of war culminating in Hiroshima then India

[@Michelle-7887]

@@TechnikMeister2 Thank you for your nice comment.

[@7colliemac]

@@TechnikMeister2 I’m 72 & this is the first time I’ve watched it.. fantastic movie.

[@kerryhorwitz4093]

Thank you for your comment 🎉

[@ldumay5541]

@TechnikMeister2 another great source is the book on Audible narrated by Nevil Shute. Yes, it goes into greater details of their continued love story, and all she did for the meger town.

[@Baskerville22]

One of only 2 films which have scenes that bring tears to my old eyes. In this, its the airport scene at the end when they meet for the first time since the War.

[@christinedowie2859]

I cried too. Death and love and war. Life completely in a nutshell from birth. Slavery in between.

[@ScottieMcClue]

A QUITE OUTSTANDING MOVIE CHOSEN FOR YOU BY LEGENDARY WORLDWIDE BROADCASTER LIVESTREAMER AND INTERNATIONAL INTERNET ICON SCOTTIE McCLUE ❤❤

[@fredleong3986]

An outstanding film . I watched it soon after release and always treasured it but forgot the teary emotional end until watching it now. Love Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@adamlee3772]

Scottie, I cannot thank you enough for posting this. I am reminded very much of watching this as a child with my late parents, and the Australians in it remind me of home and my friends. Words fail me other than to tell you that this meant so much to me.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Wonderful to hear 👏 😊

[@adamlee3772]

@ the ending is enough to melt the hardest of hearts mate. But the film and book are so very special to me. Thank you again my friend.

[@ScottieMcClue]

@adamlee3772 A Pleasure 🙏 ☺️

[@jinniyamciver-mq3np]

Generations today wouldn’t know what’s suffering enduring and sacrificing for your love ones and for your country. I saw this many many years ago. I loved it then and still love it now. Thanks for sharing to us.

[@ScottieMcClue]

A Pleasure 🙏 ☺️

[@lesleycarney8868]

My goodness, no matter how many times i see this fab movie it always clears my sinuses.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You

[@heatherhinde6544]

An utterly absorbing film. One of my favourites together with Three came home.

[@lesleycarney8868]

Thanks Heather, i just watched Three come home as i hadn't heard of it and i loved it.

[@bowernerkristiansen82]

Another of the great WW2 dramas of 1950s and a better example of the kind which quite convincingly reproduces the Japanese rampage down through Malaya. One cannot help but empathize with the suffering of the women and children during their wandering from place to place. However, a life-giving element is experienced through the quiet love that gradually builds between Jean Paget and Sergeant Joe Harman - Rarely have I experienced something so empathetic and touching on film. A great film which probably cannot be transferred to our streaming times.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@maureenwright5151]

Classic … thank you.

[@ScottieMcClue]

A Pleasure 🙏 ☺️

[@alisonsmart4597]

Love this film

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@hettyjames5111]

I saw this movie many years ago. Heartrending.

[@peterbamforth6453]

I found it quite poignant when Verginia said "wise words are well in any faith" Spot on Neville Shute.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Nevil

[@peterbamforth6453]

@@ScottieMcClue I think I must have had a cider too many. Have just subscribed :}

[@k1200ltse]

A brilliant film from a brilliant book.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@stephenbastasch7893]

An exquisite romance-drama, magically enhanced by a hauntingly lovely musical score.

[@christinedowie2859]

Best movie I've seen in ages. Tenko in black and white. Wonderful❤😊.

[@paulfuller8985]

My Mum said that when she saw this film in the ' 50s people were crying when the lights came on .

[@ScottieMcClue]

Not Surprisingly

[@Robby334]

Brilliant film very sad

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@blueflint57]

Loved this movie to bits. So glad you shared it xo

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@EMBERS-BECAME-BRIGHT-JOY]

Awesome movie Scottie❣️ Thank you 😁

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@lornahuddleston1453]

Such a moving end. They look so beautiful.

[@Limogi]

I read this book in school in the 80s.

[@charleswhinney3008]

Thank you so much.

[@ScottieMcClue]

A Pleasure 🙏 ☺️

[@bigrobnz]

Scottie your a champ......thanks....

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@cheryldahl9192]

Good, sad movie.

[@lyndamarshall9768]

Fabulous movie I watched it a number of times,and the newer version,but this one makes me very emotional thank you

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@peterbamforth6453]

Nice one Scottie.Slangavhar.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Slainte Mhath

[@peterbamforth6453]

@@ScottieMcClue Thank you for the correction.I lived on jura and the isle of islay for 18 years I have no excuse for getting it wrong :{

[@1gerard47]

​​@@peterbamforth6453are you a sassenach ?? one who puts coke in your whisky 😂?

[@patriciafeehan7732]

Great movie.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@patriciafeehan7732]

@@ScottieMcClue First time I have seen this film. Thank you!

[@lynnfern2116]

Awesome film. One of the classics. Just need to find 'On the Beach'.

[@marywagner9927]

It is a wonderful movie, but sad and poignant. I had never heard of it until here. Thank you. Any chance you could post Father Goose?

[@juliehoffman6292]

Beautiful movie.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You

[@susannaude8514]

I love this movie. Have seen it 4 times over many years and read the condensed version. Thank you!

[@TaxTheChurches.]

To lose a love and then find it again...epic.

[@patriciafeehan7732]

During WWII the Japanese Flag had red stripes around the Sun. After the War, the sun rays were removed to a single circle The Sun. This film just showed the after war one Red Sun. Wonderful movie.

[@lornahuddleston1453]

I noticed the Japanese flag too. No rays.

[@patriciafeehan7732]

@ It is an excellent movie. The flag I saw was in the beginning of the film.

[@Olivia-pe5vf]

What resilient English ladies. How cruel to treat women and children that way.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Or Anyone

[@jinniyamciver-mq3np]

Tried to find out how did she get from there to there? Least it’s happy endings. Look forward the next film.👏🎈👏

[@debbabbit9283]

Second time around and still loving it. How many survivors made it? And it's a lesson to review to keep Asian countries free.

[@lornahuddleston1453]

I adore Peter Finch❤.

[@moirarivalland5260]

me too

[@ednammansfield8553]

I enjoyed both the book by Nevil Shute and this film very much also. I haven't watched the 1981 version yet but will try and find it. Thanks very much for posting this.

[@ScottieMcClue]

A Pleasure 🙏 ☺️

[@Morbius1963]

Are they capable of making a film like this, pure storyline, and are younger audiences capable of watching it? Thank you for posting. I live amongst the Japanese. My view is that if the Japanese could be brought to such levels of bestiality so is the whole of mankind and we need to be vigilant.

[@ScottieMcClue]

My generation studied the book in school in the 60s when the memories were fresh and parents had been in the camps and dealt with the horrors

[@Caro-s7d]

After watching numerous WWII movies or documentaries and reading history books and posts, I think the Germans may have been worse. Although it hardly matters who was worse if you're a victim. An uncle (Leo A. Dorsey - WI) was in the army and arrived in Manilla on December 6, 1941. He was in the Bataan Death March and was a POW for 3-1/2 years. According to his children he suffered PTSD for the remainder of his life. Many people don't know the depravity the German medical community used on their captives. Hollywood, I believe, helped foster the idea that German POW camps were run by bumbling, basically harmless soldiers through the sitcom 'Hogan's Heros'.

[@Morbius1963]

@@Caro-s7d Mighty reading is the book "The 300" which describes the moral descent of 300 ordinary policemen to the point of vicious and callous brutality and the "Browns eyes, blues eyes" psychological experiments which prove that ordinary people can be very easily brought to absurd prejudice and spiteful behaviour. btw, I'm and old guy. I remember being told that one of my relatives came back from being a POW in Japan weighing 7 stone. But what I saw with my own eyes was how my parents had to cover party food with a tablecloth before it was ready to prevent him from going into a panic attack. I am not an apologist for Japan, but Jpn soldiers were starving too. Japan had no provision for protecting its merchant fleet and American submarines devastated the food etc supply chain.

[@martinjenkins6467]

@@Morbius1963 it's hard to imagine them Like that. Most civilised people now.

[@Davey14]

@@Caro-s7d camp 371 the japs were far worse.

[@Bebedollie]

I read this book when i was in my teens . I didn't know there was a movie too

[@norlavine]

Thank you so much!💝💌💗

[@ScottieMcClue]

A Pleasure 🙏 ☺️

[@cherryrotella3714]

Book is good. Missed out a lot in this film

[@ScottieMcClue]

Movie is excellent too all movies have be selective otherwise You'd be in the cinema for days

[@patriciafeehan7732]

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[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@marieanthony4097]

Thankyou 😊

[@ScottieMcClue]

A Pleasure 🙏 ☺️

[@jojoberrypie6580]

You feel it when the plane is landing and they are about to meet.

[@eugenio1542]

G day Scottie from Australia Scottish town of Maclean on The Great River Way on the banks of The Mighty Clarence River . ☝️❤️✌️🌍🙏

[@ScottieMcClue]

G Day

[@marleneclough3173]

I saw a,movie of this but it was quite different

[@fionasaunders7646]

One has to wonder what the Red Cross did during WW11 did, both in Asia or Germany. ???

[@ScottieMcClue]

Huge Work

[@louise7552]

The Japanese didn't allow Red Cross packages to POW. they considered surrender shameful and weak.😢😢

[@pipfox7834]

Red Cross also made sure prisoners received mail from their families. My Italian friend now in his nineties (born 1931) has gifted me precious postcards written by his father, who had the sad duty to serve in not one, but two world Wars. Imprisoned in the first one, narrowly escaped death in the Julia regiment by being sent home wounded. Julia regiment was half wrecked on Greece, then sent to the Russian front where none of his fathers regiment survived.

[@DebAtStroud]

❤

[@ScottieMcClue]

Thank You 😊 🙏

[@giancarlofilacchione7371]

Film troppo corto, rispetto al libro.

[@ScottieMcClue]

If it was the book you'd be in the cinema for days 😉

[@louise7552]

Thankyou Scottie, i have watched the later mini series with Bryan Brown and i dont like his wooden over acting. This original is a masterpiece, i cannot thank you enough. Aussie Louise. ❤❤

[@ScottieMcClue]

A Pleasure 🙏 ☺️

[@ScottieMcClue]

The Mini series was very popular particularly in the US so also a hit

[@DanielLiebert-i1p]

I loved the later mini series but feel, after seeing this, it went on too long.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Most Folk Say It's Too Short as there was more in the book 📖 😉

[@hannesrensen3604]

The 1981 version with Bryan Brown is much better.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Certainly well received 😊

[@lornahuddleston1453]

​@@ScottieMcClueI haven't seen the one with Bryan Brown. He was all the rage back then though.

[@jhayes1944]

Great film but they eliminated the half of the book where Jean works to make Willston live-able for the local youth so they won't leave for the big city. And so that she and Joe can stay in the place he loves and raise their family. That is the meaning of the phrase 'A Town Like Alice.' Shute was a much better writer than is portrayed in this version of his story. With so much more time available, the TV Mini-series told a more complete story and is well worth a watch. I wish BritBox would offer it.

[@ScottieMcClue]

Every Movie Could Have More but you could be all day in The Cinema I'm amazed how many people want something other than what they've been given

[@luciollelsa]

It's good production unfortunately even if Peter Finch is a good actor he can't do ausralian accent, which is a pity because it make it less genuine. Nearly 40yrs ago I saw the 1981 TV mini series version which is 3 times longer and I never forgot it it's excellent.

[@ScottieMcClue]

I believe it was excellent but that was 25 years after the movie remember some always like something other than what they're being offered 🫴 🤔

[@ScottieMcClue]

Excellent Actor

[@7colliemac]

That was one hell of a movie.. the last scene I got something in my eye .. 🥲