Review of A Town Like Alice

I saw this on tv many years ago and remember being impressed by it. It is never on tv nowadays,I wonder why. The film is about the experience of women interned by the Japanese when they occupied South East Asia in 1941. This is no stuffy 1950s British film. The cruel actions of the Japanese are shown in the film as much as they could be at the time it was made. The acting in this is outstanding,there are no bad performances. Peter Finch and Virginia Mckenna are the stars. As a student of the history I wonder if enough people realise just how bad the Japanese behaviour was in World War2. There are endless films and books about the evil nazis but fascist Japan is sometimes forgotten about. The film is in black and white and was made more than 60 years ago but I don't hesitate to recommend it to film lovers. I think it might be not as well known films of similar vintage that are better known such as The Cruel Sea or The Dambusters.