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[[Nevil Shute]]'s 1950 novel '''''A Town Like Alice''''' tells the story of Jean Paget as a prisoner of war in Malaya during [[World War II]] and then her return to Malaya after the war, where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia.
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Adapted into a 1956 film and a 1981 miniseries.
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* [[A Friend in Need]] : Joe, the Old Japanese Soldier as well, the village headman who takes them in.▼
* [[Aussies With Artillery]]
* [[Beau Geste]] : Joe ends up crucified for Jeane. He survives by manipulating the Japanese officer's odd version of [[Honor Before Reason]].
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* [[Cowboy]] : Joe does this for a living.
* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]] : Sort of, Joe isn't a doctor but he is [[The Caretaker]].
▲* [[A Friend in Need]] : Joe, the Old Japanese Soldier as well, the village headman who takes them in.
* [[Going Native]] : The women live out the war by picking rice in a Malayan village.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] : Noel does this knowing he is to old for Jeane. Joe does this at first thinking Jeane to be married.
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