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1 form y separately published work icon Nobody Runs Forever Wilfred Greatorex , ( dir. Ralph Thomas ) Los Angeles London : American Broadcasting Corporation Rank Organisation , 1968 Z1688141 1968 single work film/TV

Australian detective Scobie Malone is sent to England with an arrest warrant for an Australian citizen. The suspect, Sir James Quentin, is wanted in connection with an old murder. However, Quentin is currently acting as high commissioner for high-level international peace talks, and with the negotiations too sensitive to be disturbed, Malone ends up watching Quentin instead. It soon becomes apparent to the policeman that a plot is being hatched to bring the talks to an end, and that Quentin is very likely a target for assassination.

1 4 form y separately published work icon Robbery Under Arms Alexander Baron , W. P. Lipscomb , Richard Mason , ( dir. Jack Lee ) 1957 London : Rank Organisation , 1957 Z820540 1957 single work film/TV Set in the 1850s, Robbery Under Arms is the story of two brothers, Dick and Jim Marston, who follow their father's footsteps into a life of bushranging through the influence of the charismatic Captain Starlight. The narrative sees the brothers set out on a series of escapades that include theft and robbery under arms. The story also explores the conflicting emotions that Jim experiences as his life leads him further away both from his mother and sister and from the life and love that he might have otherwise have experienced.
1 1 form y separately published work icon A Town Like Alice W. P. Lipscomb , Richard Mason , ( dir. Jack Lee ) London : Rank Organisation , 1956 Z1220335 1956 single work film/TV

Set in Malaya during the Second World War, A Town Like Alice tells the story of Englishwoman Jean Paget. When Paget is captured by the advancing Japanese army, she joins a group of women and children who are forced to march from prison camp to prison camp because the Japanese had devised no plan to deal with them. She later meets up with an Australian digger, Joe Harman, who hails from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Although a prisoner of war, Joe is occasionally allowed outside his camp to help his guards, and subsequently helps the group with medicine and food, which he appropriates from the Japanese without their knowledge. When Joe is eventually caught and tried for stealing the commandant's chickens, he is sentenced to death. After being forced to watch him being tortured, Jean and the group are sent once more on the relentless march to nowhere. When their sole remaining guard later dies, they seek refuge in a village, where they remain until the war ends. Shortly before she returns to England, Jean finds out that Joe's execution was stayed and that he is still alive. She later travels to Alice Springs to find him. Joe, in the meantime, has travelled to England in pursuit of her. They eventually meet in the Alice Springs airport lounge and are finally able to express the emotion they feel for one another.

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