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
The Town (Richter novel) Ohio University Press released paperback editions of "The Awakening Land" trilogy in 1991. Chicago Review Press issued reprints of the original Knopf editions in 2017. The Town (Richter novel) The Town (1950) is a novel written by American author Conrad Richter. It is the third installment of his trilogy The Awakening Land. "The Trees" (1940) and "The Fields" (1946) were the earlier portions of the series. "The Town" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. In September 1966, his publisher Alfred A. Knopf reissued the trilogy for the first time as a single hardcover volume. According to the