A Town Like Alice (film)

A Town Like Alice
Directed byJack Lee
Written byNevil Shute (novel); W. P. Lipscomb and Richard Mason (screenplay)
Produced byJoseph Janni
StarringVirginia McKenna
Peter Finch
CinematographyGeoffrey Unsworth
Edited bySidney Hayers
Music byMatyas Seiber
Distributed byThe Rank Organisation
Release date
  • 1 March 1956 (1956-03-01)
Running time
117 min
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Australia
LanguageEnglish
Box office1,037,005 admissions (France)[1]

A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British drama film produced by Joseph Janni and starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch that is based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute.[2] The film does not follow the whole novel, concluding at the end of part two and truncating or omitting much detail. It was partially filmed in Malaya and Australia.

Alice Springs
  1. ^ French box office for 1957 at Box Office Story
  2. ^ BFI.org