Peter Finch and Virginia McKenna play lovers who meet when captured by the Japanese in Malaya in World War Two. This film, based on Neville Shute’s novel, was very popular on release and one of two great “Australian” performances Peter Finch gave in his career (the other was in The Shiralee). The opening scenes, during the Japanese advance, are very exciting and the ending very moving, with Finch and McKenna working together.
A sign of the times: when Finch refers to the station he works on in Australia as having “three men – and nine boongs”. There was an Australian mini-series version of Shute’s novel with Bryan Brown and Helen Morse which was also popular.
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