Montage

Recently I was reading a local online news service and there it was "Memories sought for film premiere restaging". It had been 50 years since the Gala Premiere of "A Town Like Alice" at the Pioneer Theatre in Alice Springs on the 24th July 1956; and the good people of Alice Springs wanted to relive some of the excitement and glamour of Hollywood coming to the Alice. According to the "Centralian Advocate" dated July 20th 1956 a world record was to be set on July 24th (the big night) , the record was that in no part of the world have so many people travelled such long distances to see one film ( I wonder if this is still the World Record Holder?). I read this book at High School as did most Australian children. It tells the story of a group of women and children Prisoners of War forced to march across Malaya by the Japanese. Along the way one of the women (Jean Paget) meets up with an Australian soldier (Joe Harman) who sneaks food in for them from his labor...