The film is told in flashback as McKenna goes back to Malaysia after the war and discovers what happened to Finch. However he faces severe punishment when he is found out for stealing some chickens. During the journey Virginia McKenna meets Australian soldier Peter Finch also a prisoner of war but he does his best to help them out here and there and both fall for each other. During their journey they are accompanied by an old guard who slowly comes to respect them. Slowly one by one they perish because of malnutrition, sickness, disease or exhaustion. They apparently died of exhaustion A Town Like Alice adapted from the novel by Nevile Shute looks at a group of women as they shuffle from one Japanese camp to another during occupied Malaysia but no one would take them in. Years later my mother told me how she lost some relatives in the second world war as they tried to escape from the Japanese in Burma by trying to walk it to India.
This is an image that sticks in my mind whenever this film is mentioned. They seemed to have cried most of the way through the film.
I remember my mother and my aunt watching this film when I was a little boy late once night when it came on television.
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