I am now watching, on TCM, in this hospital bed, the 1956 film version of Nevil Shire's novel, " A Town Named Alice - paying less attention sine I'm. reading + posting here. I never saw the longermade-for-TV, remake.
Watched the mini- series, in 1981, on Masterpiece Theatre. One of the best shows I've ever seen, with wonderful commentary - per usual - by Alistair Cooke. p.s. Speaking of wonderful - hope you're back to non-hospital bed watching real soon.
Yeah, get well soon. How about: “A Town named Alice and a boy named Sue”? Huge box office potential I tell you ...
I was watching, too. The subject matter of this movie is some of the gravest and most heart-breaking I have ever encountered.
...Once the film was past WWII and a certain major story revelation (which had quite surprised me when I read the novel, years back). it really jumped fast to the end! Really, the last part of the story was quite skipped over/fast-forwarded thru! Presumably the mini-series took a more leisurely pace. BTW, when I read the novel. there was a reference en passim to something, regarding what I guess were laws/mores/rules in Australia in the post-Dub Dub period, which surprised me a bit...I was looking to back it up with an inquiry to any willing Ozzies here...
