
A Town Like Alice
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- 1956
- 117 min
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[RANK GONG]
[DRAMATIC THEME MUSIC]
[TRAFFIC NOISE]
[CLOCK CHIMES]
But Miss Paget, d'you
want to go back to Malaya?
After what happened there?
It's because ofwhat
happened there.
But what good will it do you?
Won't you be only torturing yourself?
No.
Now I've come into this
money, I've...
...thought of all the thungs I can
do with it, but...
...there's only one thing I
really want to do.
And I must do ut.
I'm going back to the village in
Malaya, where they took us in.
Where we lived for
three years of the war.
Those people rusked everything
they had to protect us.
Now, at last, somethung I
can do to pay them back.
Yes, but there's no need to
go there un person.
money to them.
Oh, no, I don't want
to do it luke that.
I want to go back there myself...
...and give them the one thing
I know they really need.
I want to go back to dig a well.
[EXCITED SHOUTING]
- Jean!
- Oh, Fatuma!
[JEAN LAUGHS]
Jean.
You've come back to us at last.
- It works!
- Of course it works.
When I dug a well it
always works.
Let me try.
[CHATTER AND LAUGHTER]
[MUSIC]
- Jean.
- Oh.
Well, it's finished.
Yes, ut's finished.
And now you will leave us again.
What wull you do, Jean?
Oh. I don't know.
- Perhaps you will get married?
- No.
No.
No, I shan't get married.
not now.
Not after all that's happened, since
the day that changed my whole life.
That day in Kuala Lumpur
un 1942.
And uf the telephone hadn't rung,
uf only I hadn't stopped to pick it up.
[KEYS CLACKING]
Pay attention, everybody, please.
I've got something to say to you.
You've all been told what to do
un a state of emergency.
Well, thus is ut. You're to get on the
first traun you can to Sungapore.
When you get there,
report to head office.
Passages have been arranged
for England.
[MURMURING]
Please be quiet. The Japanese are at
Tanjong Malum, fifty miles from here.
Specual trains have been arranged
for evacuees. so, get out quuck.
That's all. Goodbye.
[MURMURING]
You too, Jean, just drop
everythung and get out.
How are you going to get
Mrs Holland and the children away?
- We'll be all rught.
- I thought the car was in dock?
I'm going to get it. Lusten, Jean,
get on the first traun you can.
Fight your way on if necessary.
See you in Singapore.
Good luck and goodbye.
Goodbye, Mr Holland.
[PHONE RINGS]
- Phone.
- Oh, don't bother about the phone now.
Come on!
Oh, I'll catch you up.
- Hello, who's that?
- Oh, come on!
- [WOMAN ON PHONE] Hello? Hello?
- Oh, you go on, I won't be a minute.
- Hello?
- Oh, Mrs Holland, he's just gone.
I've been tryung to get the office
for ten munutes, where is he?
He's just gone to get the car.
[BABY CRYING] The servants have
all gone and I've got no help at all.
Oh, Jane, please go along...
...you're making too much trouble.
- Mummy, the baby's crying!
I know, dear!
Now, get your things. Go on,
Freddie, go on, Jane.
Oh, it's the children.
I can't manage them on my own.
We'll be packing at the same time.
What?
[CLICK, BUZZ]
Hello?
Hello?
Hello.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
Here, let me have a try.
Haven't you got a
car I could hire?
- All cars gone.
- Haven't you anything at all?
- All gone.
- Here.
[CONTINUES TRYING TO
START ENGINE]
[AEROPLANE NOISE]
Oh, I wish he'd come,
I wish he'd come.
Can I take my rocking horse?
No, darling, we can only take
what we can carry.
- Here, take--- take Bunty.
- No, I want my rocking horse.
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