Saturday, August 3, 2013

A Town Like Alice

Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch

Credible telling of the true story fictionalized by Neville Shute in his 1951 book. Of necessity the film only covers half the story...while in the book I found the second (Australian) half equally interesting.

The travails of the women were well depicted but so much had to be left out it came across as a peaks-only trip through the amazing adventure. VMK was good, if a little stiff...but she was playing a Brit after all. The romance seemed strained as played by these two actors but it was wartime and romances flourished under times of such stress.

Overall a very nice job of a story which should be remembered.

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