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The Glenrowan Affair
''The Glenrowan Affair'' is a 1951 movie about Ned Kelly from director Rupert Kathner. It was Kathner's final film and stars VFL star Bob Chitty as Kelly. It is considered one of the worst films ever made in Australia. Plot Artist Rupert Kathner is sketching in near Benalla. He flashes back to the story of Ned Kelly and his gang. Cast * Bob Chitty as Ned Kelly * Albie Henderson as Joe Byrne * Ben Crowe as Dan Kelly * Bill Wright as Steve Hart * John Fernside as Father Gibney * Charles Tasman as Commissioner Nicholson **(However, in reality Nicholson was never Commissioner. He was only a Superintendent, whilst Standish (portrayed as Superintendent in this film) was the Commissioner during the hunt for Kelly and his gang.) * Charles Webb as Superintendent Hare * Edward Smith as Superintendent Standish * Frank Ransome as Sergeant Steele * Stan Tolhurst as the blacksmith * Beatrice Kay as Kate Kelly * Wendy Roberts as Mrs Skillion * Rupert Kathner (as "Hunt Angels") as Aaron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Kathner
Rupert Kathner (1904–1954) was an Australian film director best known for newsreels and low-budget films. He worked with Alma Brooks, an ex-barmaid, who co-produced, operated the camera, edited, co-scripted and acted in their films.Morgan Kathner and Brooks were also "shady con artists and fugitives from the law", sometimes described as the "Bonnie and Clyde" of the Australian film industry. Career Kathner was born in Adelaide and educated at St Peter's College. He studied art under Hans Heysen and became a sketch artist. He broke into the film industry in the early 1930s by working on set designs. His first movie was ''Phantom Gold (1936 film), Phantom Gold'' (1937).Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p178 Kathner and Brooks achieved their first success with their "shocking [for the time] newsreels".Edwards (2006) The most popular of these was about the unsolved murder case, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Southwell
Harry Southwell (born 1882, date of death unknown) was an Australian actor, writer and film director best known for making films about Ned Kelly. He was born in Cardiff, Wales and spent a couple of years in America, where he adapted some short stories by O Henry into two reel films. He worked for Vitagraph in the United States for five years, then moved to Australia in 1919, where he used his experience as a screenwriter to impress investors to back him making features. He set up his own production company in Australia but few of his movies were commercially successful.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 96. He returned to Europe in the 1920s, where he made a British-Belgian film called ''The Bells'' (1925), with himself in the lead role of Mathias the innkeeper. The film took five months to shoot. He later returned to Australia in 1931, where he worked for Australian Players. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon (company), Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandemonium (1987 Film)
''Pandemonium'' is a 1987 Australian fantasy comedy horror film in the style of ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show''.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p153 Plot synopsis Raised by a family of dingoes, a young feral girl heads for Babylon, Australia to find her family, only to find that her mother is not all she seems. Cast *Amanda Dole as the dingo girl *David Argue as Kales Leadingham / Ding the Dingo *Esben Storm as E.B. De Woolf / Husband *Arna-Maria Winchester as P.B. De Woolf / Wife *Lex Marinos as Dick Dickerson / Detective *Ian Nimmo as Mr. David *Mercia Deane-Johns as Morticia *Haydn Keenan as Dr. Doctor Reception Australian film critic Michael Adams later included ''Pandemonium'' on his list of the worst ever Australian films, along with '' Phantom Gold'', ''The Glenrowan Affair'', ''Houseboat Horror'', ''Welcome to Woop Woop'', ''Les Patterson Saves the World'' and ''The Pirate Movie''.Michael Ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Patterson Saves The World
''Les Patterson Saves the World'' is a 1987 Australian comedy film starring Barry Humphries as his stage creations Sir Les Patterson and Dame Edna Everage. Plot The uncouth Sir Les Patterson teams up with Dame Edna Everage (both played by Barry Humphries) to save the world from a virulent bioterror attack ordered by Colonel Richard Godowni ( Thaao Penghlis) of the Gulf State of Abu Niveah. Cast *Barry Humphries as Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage *Pamela Stephenson as Veronique Crudité * Thaao Penghlis as Colonel Richard Godowni * Andrew Clarke as Neville Thonge *Henri Szeps as Dr. Charles Herpes / Desiree Herpes *Hugh Keays-Byrne as Inspector Farouk *Elizabeth McIvor as Nancy Borovansky *Garth Meade as Mustafa Toul *Arthur Sherman as General Evans * John Clarke as Mike Rooke *Josef Drewniak as Mossolov *Esben Storm as Russian Scientist *Joy Westmore as Lady Gwen Patterson *Connie Hobbs as Madge Allsop *Joan Rivers as the U.S. President Production The film was co-writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welcome To Woop Woop
''Welcome to Woop Woop'' is a 1997 Australian comedy film directed by Stephan Elliott and starring Johnathon Schaech and Rod Taylor. The film was based on the novel ''The Dead Heart'' by Douglas Kennedy. "Woop Woop" is an Australian colloquialism referring to a fictional location in the middle of nowhere. Plot Teddy (Johnathon Schaech) is a New York bird smuggler who goes to Australia to replace a flock of escaped birds after a deal goes awry. While there, he has a wild liaison with a quirky, sexually ravenous girl, Angie ( Susie Porter), who, after a brief courtship, knocks him unconscious and kidnaps him. When he awakes, he finds himself "married" to her - not legally - and stranded in Woop Woop, a desolate, dilapidated town hidden within a crater-like rock formation in Aboriginal territory. The residents are people who lived there at an asbestos mining camp before the land was handed over to the Aboriginal peoples; following a tragedy in 1979, Woop Woop was abandoned and li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houseboat Horror
''Houseboat Horror'' is a 1989 Australian slasher film that was shot on video, and then released to video in 1989. It is often described by critics and audiences as one of the worst Australian films ever made. Plot A film crew composed of media types and party animals from the city embark on a road trip to record music videos of a hard-living rock band at rural Lake Infinity. Meanwhile, a hitchhiker is shocked by the grisly discovery of her friend's dead body. Alone and forced to run through dense scrubland to escape an unseen assailant, she fails to evade the killer and is stabbed multiple times. The visiting rock band with film crew, stop for fuel at a petrol station and is given an uneasy reception by locals who seem wary or suspicious of outsiders. They leave to meet the rest of the crew at a river where houseboats have been hired for transport and accommodation. Further deaths come as a surprise to viewers as sneaking creep at the petrol station gives the impression he ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pirate Movie
''The Pirate Movie'' is a 1982 Australian musical romantic comedy film directed by Ken Annakin, and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol. Loosely based on Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera ''The Pirates of Penzance'', the original music score is composed by Mike Brady and Peter Sullivan (no relation to ''Pirates of Penzance'' composer Arthur Sullivan). The film performed far below expectations in initial release and is generally reviewed very poorly, but fared far more positively with audiences. It has developed a cult following following home media release and TV airings. Plot Mabel Stanley is an introverted and bookish teenage girl from the United States in a seaside community in Australia as an exchange student. She attends a local pirate festival featuring a swordplay demonstration led by a young curly-haired instructor and fellow American, who then invites her for a ride on his boat. She is duped by her exchange family sisters, Edith, Kate and Isabel, into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phantom Gold (1936 Film)
''Phantom Gold'' is a 1936 Australian adventure film about the search for Lasseter's Reef. It was the first feature from director Rupert Kathner. Plot summary Harold Lasseter claims he knows the location of a gold reef and in 1930 manages to raise funds for an expedition to discover it. He discovers the reef but dies of thirst. Pilots W.L. Pittendrigh and S.J. Hamre go looking for Lasseter but run out of fuel and are forced to land in the desert. They are there for three weeks before being rescued. Bob Buck discovers Lasseter's body and buries him. The gold reef is never found. Cast *Stan Tolhurst as Harry Lasseter *Bryce Russell as Paul Johns *Captain W.L. Pittendrigh as himself *Bob Buck as himself *Old Warts as himself *Reg King as S.J. Hamre *Ben Nicke Production In April 1936 Sydney businessman H.V. Foy led an expedition to discover Lasseter's Reef in central Australia. He took two filmmakers with him, Rupert Kathner and Stan Tolhurst, to record the trip. Along the way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth Film Laboratories
Commonwealth Film Laboratories was an Australian production company that operated from 1925 to the 1950s. They were formerly located in Surry Hills, New South Wales. In addition to making films for the Government of Australia, they invested in and provided facilities for several Australian feature films. Select Credits *''Conquest'' (1936) – short *''Eaglets'' (1935) – short *''Mystery Island'' (1937) – production company *''The Adventures of Dot'' (1938) – short – provided facilities *'' Typhoon Treasure'' (1936) *''Seven Little Australians'' (1939) facilities *''Australia Has Wings'' (1941) – short *''The Rats of Tobruk'' (1944) – investor *''A Son is Born'' (1946) – built sets References External linksCommonwealth Film Laboratoriesat Australian Screen Online The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Argus (Melbourne)
''The Argus'' was an Australian daily morning newspaper in Melbourne from 2 June 1846 to 19 January 1957, and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period. Widely known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left-leaning approach from 1949. ''The Argus''s main competitor was David Syme's more liberal-minded newspaper, ''The Age''. History The newspaper was originally owned by William Kerr, who was also Melbourne's town clerk from 1851–1856 and had been a journalist at the ''Sydney Gazette'' before moving to Melbourne in 1839 to work on John Pascoe Fawkner's newspaper, the '' Port Phillip Patriot''. The first edition was published on 2 June 1846. The paper soon became known for its scurrilous abuse and sarcasm, and by 1853, after he had lost a series of libel lawsuits, Kerr was forced to sell the paper's ownership to avoid financial ruin. The paper was then published by Edward Wilson. By 1855, it had a daily c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunshine Advocate
The ''Brimbank & North West Star Weekly'' is a weekly suburban newspaper that serves a broad section of outer western Melbourne suburbs including Sunshine, Braybrook, St Albans, Deer Park and Ardeer. The paper is delivered for free each Tuesday to an estimated circulation of 78,261. The paper also has an online news website that is updated on a daily basis. History The paper was originally known as the ''Sunshine Advocate'' and commenced publication on 1 March 1924, making it the first registered newspaper in the district. It was founded by Clarence Carlton, who remained the proprietor and editor from 1924 until 1965, when it was acquired by Cumberland Newspapers. In 1995 it became known as the ''Brimbank Advocate'', then finally in September 2010 the connection with the Advocate name ceased when the publication was renamed the ''Brimbank Weekly''. In January 2015, Fairfax Media, then publisher of the ''Brimbank Weekly'', established a new entity, MMP Star Pty Ltd and merged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |