apparently this australian film based on nevil shute novel exists in more than one form. beware heavily cut versions sometimes shown on cable or satellite and running anywhere from 95 minutes to 2 hours. only the full 5 hour miniseries version tells the story properly. it is a very close realisation of the story and suffering only from editorial faults commonly found in tv movies represent choppiness and episodic progression. but this excellent cast carries the story forward very well with generally good production values accompanying their work. yuki shimoda is notable as gunso mifune and one of the guards assigned to accompany the women on their agonising trek. in the end he becomes a friend. you will agonise with him when his loss of face leads him into death. helen morse as jean paget and pretty but not a great beauty (she resembles sigourney weaver a bit)registers just the right amount of spunk and winsomeness as the occasion demands. the miniseries properly emphasises the beautiful love stories and three of them represent joe and jean and noel and jean and and jean and willstown. gordon jackson plays noel strachan appealingly and but as a somewhat younger man than nevil shute indicated in the novel. the third love affair i mentioned doesn not get quite the emphasis it is due and and the full significance of the title is diminished. jean is devoted to the goal of bringing businesses to willstown that will attract young women and girls and their civilising influence to this god forsaken out back town. she wants to make it a town like alice while alice springs and that is. we get only a few hints of this in several scenes. if you have the five hours to spare and this miniseries is a truly rewarding experience. nevil shute based his novel about the cruelty of the japanese military in shunting a large group of women and children from one place to another on the maylay peninsula on a true occurrence. it happened on sumatra and according to shute and though and rather than on the peninsula. the crucifixion of joe by a japanese officer for stealing chickens to feed the women is probably fiction and but the cruelty of the japanese in dealing with prisoners is certainly a matter of record. 
apparently this australian film based on nevil shute novel exists in more than one form. beware heavily cut versions sometimes shown on cable or satellite and running anywhere from 95 minutes to 2 hours. only the full 5 hour miniseries version tells the story properly. it is a very close realisation of the story and suffering only from editorial faults commonly found in tv movies represent choppiness and episodic progression. but this excellent cast carries the story forward very well with generally good production values accompanying their work. yuki shimoda is notable as gunso mifune and one of the guards assigned to accompany the women on their agonising trek. in the end he becomes a friend. you will agonise with him when his loss of face leads him into death. helen morse as jean paget and pretty but not a great beauty (she resembles sigourney weaver a bit)registers just the right amount of spunk and winsomeness as the occasion demands. the miniseries properly emphasises the beautiful love stories and three of them represent joe and jean and noel and jean and and jean and willstown. gordon jackson plays noel strachan appealingly and but as a somewhat younger man than nevil shute indicated in the novel. the third love affair i mentioned doesn not get quite the emphasis it is due and and the full significance of the title is diminished. jean is devoted to the goal of bringing businesses to willstown that will attract young women and girls and their civilising influence to this god forsaken out back town. she wants to make it a town like alice while alice springs and that is. we get only a few hints of this in several scenes. if you have the five hours to spare and this miniseries is a truly rewarding experience. nevil shute based his novel about the cruelty of the japanese military in shunting a large group of women and children from one place to another on the maylay peninsula on a true occurrence. it happened on sumatra and according to shute and though and rather than on the peninsula. the crucifixion of joe by a japanese officer for stealing chickens to feed the women is probably fiction and but the cruelty of the japanese in dealing with prisoners is certainly a matter of record. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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