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A Town Like Alice is a film of genre Drama with Helen Morse
A Town Like Alice (1981)
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Add to a movie listA Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book.
^ "The magic of Helen Morse.". The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) (1933 - 1982: National Library of Australia). 18 June 1980. p. 10 Supplement: FREE your TV Magazine. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p217
Actors
Helen Morse
(Jean Paget)
Bryan Brown
(Joe Harman)
Gordon Jackson
(Noel Strachan)
Dorothy Alison
(Mrs. Frith)
Yuki Shimoda
(Sergeant Mifune)
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