A Town Like Alice (1956 film) put Jack Lee and Joe Janni under contract for two years as a team. They went on to make "Robbery Under Arms" with Finch. 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
No Place Like Home (novel) few of the older residents of the town are murdered and some of the evidence leads to Celia being suspected. Celia finds her own life in danger, as the pursuit of the murderer's identity picks up pace. Msnbc.com described the novel as a "suspenseful murder mystery". New York Times writer, Marilyn Stasio, said that the novel "taps into the tensions that go along with the joys of moving into a new home". No Place Like Home (novel) No Place Like Home is a thriller novel written by Mary Higgins Clark and published in 2005. The story starts with 10-year-old Liza