Virginia McKenna
Jean Paget
Peter Finch
Joe Harman
Tran Van Khe
Captain Sugaya
Jean Anderson
Miss Horsefall
Marie Lohr
Mrs. Dudley Frost
Maureen Swanson
Ellen
Renée Houston
Ebbey
Nora Nicholson
Mrs. Frith
Eileen Moore
Mrs. Holland
John Fabian
Mr. Holland
Vincent Ball
Ben
Vu Ngoc Tuan
Captain Yanata
Kenji Takaki
Japanese Sergeant
Tim Turner
British Sergeant
Munesato Yamada
Captain TakataOtokichi Ikeda
Kempetei Sergeant
Geoffrey Keen
SolicitorJune Shaw
Mrs GrahamVirginia Clay
Mrs KnowlesBay White
Mrs Davies
Edwina Carroll
FatimaSanny Bin Hussan
Mat AminMargaret Eaden
JaneDominic Lieven
Michael RhodesPeter John
TimothyMeg Buckenham
Mary Graham
Sam Kydd
Australian Driver
Russell Napier
Jack BurnsMartin Voss
PassengerErnest Blyth
Prisoner (uncredited)Norman Morris
PrisonerJohn Wilder
Prisoner (uncredited)Ah Chong Choy
Malay DriverGarard Green
Australian POWEric D. Henderson
Australian POWCharles Gilliard
PrisonerCharles Rayford
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- #australia
- #based on novel or book
- #world war ii
- #prisoner of war
- #japanese occupation
- #black and white
- #malaya
- #1940s
- #kuala lumpur malaysia
- #alice springs
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Virginia McKenna takes on the role as a dispossessed British colonial secretary forced into captivity/slavery and to fight for her very survival by the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1941 and who is, together with a group of similarly forsaken women, shunted around from camp to camp before finally being pretty much abandoned to the wilderness by the Japanese Army. Unusually, for many films made