Connections: A Town Like Alice
Connecting a series of movies through the second billed performers in each movie.
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- DirectorJack LeeStarsVirginia McKennaPeter FinchKenji TakakiA newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsPeter FinchMary UreNatasha ParryA doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions.Connected to "A Town Like Alice" by Peter Finch.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsRichard BurtonClaire BloomMary UreA disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.Connected to "Windom's Way" by Mary Ure.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsCurd JürgensClaire BloomHansjörg FelmyIn 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.Connected to "Look Back in Anger" by Claire Bloom.
- DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsO.E. HasseJohanna von KoczianMartin HeldA furious comedy about three incurable idealists, who want to go down in history as a prosecutor, a politician and a doctor. One desperately wants to introduce the death penalty in order to bring the law of Moses back into the world, another wants to resurrect communism, free from its Russian heritage. The third believes in love as the last great asset of humanity. And then there is also a fourth, who more than anything else is looking for professional gain. They all have one thing in common - they love the same woman. And so, at the end, it is a woman who rules on their manly machinations and drives the game of the unreformable one step forward.Connected to "Brainwashed" by Hansjorg Felmy. Second billed was Johanna von Koczian. Her work since has been television, so here the list ends.