Storyline Edit. Meeting in Malaya - she an attractive young English captive and he a cheerful Australian POW tortured for a simple act of kindness. Separated first by their captors then by the distance of passing years, the two are finally reunited in the rugged outback of Australia-to face a challenge every bit as demanding as their wartime trials. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia This was the first non-British production to air in the U.
Routemasters weren't introduced until the mids. User reviews 21 Review. Top review. A Town Like Alice. I remember watching this series avidly and being so disappointed when it came to an end.
Over the years since then, I have tried to find out if I could obtain a copy of it on either video or d. However, I was delighted to find this website with details of it, only to be disappointed again at the point of purchase, that the videos available will not play on English recorders! This production was so wonderful, being absolutely accurate with Nevil Shute's novel, taking the storyline through after the end of the war, with Joe and Jean's subsequent life together - absolutely marvellous - and I just wish I were able to see it again, as since it's original screening, there have been no repeats of it on British television.
Details Edit. Release date October 4, United States. Der lange Weg nach Alice Springs. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 5 hours 1 minute.
Related news. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page. Best of Top 10 Movies of the Year. See the list. New Holiday Picks to Stream in It was natural that Douglas Macfadden should put his affairs into the hands of Jock Dalhousie, and Mr.
Dalhousie handled them personally till he died in In splitting up the work I took Mr. Macfadden on to my list of clients, and forgot about him in the pressure of other matters. It was not until that any business for him came up. I had a letter from him then, from an address in Ayr. He said that his brother-in-law, Arthur Paget, had been killed in a motor-car accident in Malaya and so he wanted to redraft his will to make a trust in favour of his sister Jean and her two children.
I am sorry to say that I was so ignorant of this client that I did not even know he was unmarried and had no issue of his own. He finished up by saying that he was too unwell to travel down to London, and he suggested that perhaps a junior member of the firm might be sent up to see him and arrange the matter.
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