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Down Under (1927 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Down Under' is an Australian feature-length film directed by Harry Southwell. It was the first full-length feature film made in Western Australia. It featured the outback, as well as Perth and Kings Park.
Plot
An Australian vagabond, Walter Nobbage, has a series of adventures, including a trotting race meeting, a cattle muster and an aboriginal corroboree. Nobbage's sweetheart dies and he sacrifices his life for the safe her his dead sweetheart's little boy.
Cast
*Harry Southwell
*Nancy Mills
*Ivy Deakin
*Alec Weird
*Mrs Compton
*L Laurence
*J Austin
*G Cotter
*G Temple-Poole
*J Hennessy
*D Brown
*J Southwell
*A Raven
Production
The film was financed by West Australian businessmen and shot in that state at Erlistoun Station, Laverton and Perth.
Southwell claimed at the time he had a contract to make six films for distribution in Britain.
It was the first and only production of Anglo-Australian Films.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, 'Australian Film 19001977: A Guide to Feature Film Production', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 137.
Release
It premiered on 4 September 1929 in Perth at the Majestic Theatre. The film appears never to have received a commercial release in Britain
Southwell attempted to set up another company in Australia, Western Southwell Productions, aiming to make a 4,000 movie called 'Gold'. This film was never made.
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