A Town Like Alice (1956 film) A Town Like Alice (1956 film) 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 eponymous 1950 novel by Nevil Shute. 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. In post-Second World War London, a young woman, Jean Paget, is informed by solicitor Noel Strachan that she has a large inheritance. Asked what she wants to do, Jean decides to travel to
The Town (Faulkner novel) in the course of the trilogy. Owen Robinson has noted the contrast in the narrative style and tone between "The Hamlet" and "The Town". Thomas H Rogers commented critically, in his contemporary review of the novel, in his comparison between the literary merits of "The Hamlet" and "The Town". Peter Swiggart has noted that the events and style in "The Town" reflect Faulkner's attempts to create a more realistic social milieu compared to his other works. The Town (Faulkner novel) The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of