While the present teenage generation grow up on TV mini series such as ER, Prison Break,The Office, and many others...our generation of the 70s reminisced on great shows as Dallas(who shot JR Ewing/),Little house on the Prairie,Combat, Run for your Life( A cool Ben Gazzara show..) but one particular mini series always stick in mind ever since i watched that show more than 30 years ago.
The TV series in question is .."A town like Alice",it depicts the long march by British women in Japanese captivity.
They were forced to walk from Klang all the way to Kota bahru
.It was a love story of an English woman (played by Helen Morse) who was one of those women in Japanese captivity and an Australian soldier(Bryan Brown) who tried vainly to help them.
I always tried to look out for this old mini series whenever i walked into a video shop.
Thanks to my daughter Sabrina who ordered the the VCR from Amazon and a close friend Nizam who kindly converted the VCR into a DVD format ..i finally had this opportunity again to watch this mini series classic.
Am i disappointed? Well except for the picture quality,what do you expect of a series made more than 30 years ago but the story line still captivates me.
The Mini series proved the fact that a good storyline and fine acting are still the enduring criteria of a great movie or even a classic.
"A town Like Alice" though is not my all time favourite.."Doctor Zhivago" still takes that prize for me, a great movie with a good storyline set in a great Russian setting and of course a powerful acting display by that great actor, Omar Sharif.
See you at the movies as they said ya will have to get around to bring Faizul to watch Transformers 2 and the new Harry Potter movie....what a difference from those old great classics.
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