''Double Trouble'' is a

docu-drama Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television show, television and feature film, film, which features Drama (film and television), dramatized Historical reenactment, re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of docum ...

directed by Lee Robinson about two Australian men intolerant of foreign migrants who find themselves transported to a foreign country. Unlike most movies from the Australian National Film Board it used professional actors, and gave Lee Robinson invaluable experience directing them prior to his first feature, ''

The Phantom Stockman ''The Phantom Stockman'' is a 1953 Australian western film written and directed by Lee Robinson and starring Chips Rafferty, Victoria Shaw, Max Osbiston and Guy Doleman. It was the first of several movies produced by Lee Robinson in associatio ...

'' (1953). The film has since come to be regarded as historically significant because of its depiction of attitudes towards Australian immigration at the time.Paul Byrnes, 'Capturing a nation's reinvention', ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 9 December 2004
accessed 17 December 2011 Robinson and editor Inman Hunter later wrote a story for a drama film together which became ''

The Siege of Pinchgut ''The Siege of Pinchgut'' (released in the US as ''Four Desperate Men'') is a 1959 British thriller filmed on location in Sydney, Australia, and directed by Harry Watt. It was the last film produced by Ealing Studios, and was entered into the ...

'' (1959).

Cast

*Frank Waters *Ken McCarron *Maurice Travers *Charles Farrell

References

External links

''Double Trouble''
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