![]() ![]() And these actors almost always had such cultured voices, a result, no doubt, of all those elocution lessons that were once (and for all I know, may still be) an essential component of the training for any aspiring actor. This was largely due to the fact that an actor with a working-class accent was unlikely to get cast in the lead role of a movie back then, unless they'd already made their name for themselves in music hall or radio, of course. In the films of pre-1960s British cinema, there was nothing more resolute and dignified in the face of adversity than the upper middle-class. Slarek is gripped and moved by the film, and enjoys Network's new Blu-ray. ![]() Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch are excellent in A TOWN LIKE ALICE, Jack Lee's compelling 1956 adaptation of Nevil Shute's tale of a group of British women forced to walk across Malaya by the invading Japanese. ![]()
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