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A Yank in Australia
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Wikipedia article
'A Yank in Australia' is a 1942 Australian comedy film directed by Alfred J. Goulding and starring Al Thomas and Hartney Arthur.
Plot
Two journalists in New York, American Headlines Haggerty (Al Thomas) and Englishman Clarence Worthington (Hartney Arthur) are sent to cover the war in the South Pacific. They get marooned on the Australian coast along with two rival female reporters after a Japanese sub sinks their boat. They are rescued by a girl who lives on the island with her father, Horace. Together they all uncover and stop a plot by the Japanese to invade Australia.
Cast
*Al Thomas as Headlines Haggerty
*Hartney Arthur as Clarence Worthington
*Kitty Bluett as Clara Matthews
*Jane Conolly as Dolly
*Graham Wicker as Horace
*Alfred J. Goulding as a Japanese spy
*Joy Nichols
*Frank Bradley
*Marie La Varre
Production
The film was shot in 1942 at the Commonwealth Film Laboratory studios in Sydney, with exteriors at Taronga Park Zoo. Several of the cast were established radio performers.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, 'Australian Film 19001977: A Guide to Feature Film Production', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 196
Release
The film took two years to be released, making its world debut in Brisbane on 11 November 1944. A local critic called it "an example of just how bad a motion picture can be... In every department production, dialogue, story 'A Yank in Australia' falls short. Incoherence, incredibility, and inconsistency are spread like treacle over the whole thing."
Box office receipts were poor but the film was also released in England and the US.
References
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