''Eleventh Hour'' is a 1942 Australian short documentary film from director

Ken G. Hall Kenneth George Hall, AO, OBE (22 February 1901 – 8 February 1994), better known as Ken G. Hall, was an Australian film producer and director, considered one of the most important figures in the history of the Australian film industry. ...

for the Department of Information. It was the third in a series of movies to promote Austerity War Loans, following '' Another Threshold''.

Plot

A woman wonders if the sacrifices of war are worth it. Her first World War veteran husband assures her that it is.

Cast

*Muriel Steinbeck as the wife *John Nugent Hayard as the husband *Margaret Sinclair as the daughter in law

Reception

''The Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote that:

Ken Hall... has used the Anzac Day memorial services with effect... he filmshould rally the dilatory to the war bond booths. Muriel Steinbeck Is splendid... The mournful retrospection of...
he wife He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' ...
.. could with advantage be less insistent in the script, and more heartening implication and less exhortation be given to the propaganda angle of the narrative.

''Smith's Weekly'' said "Nothing is over-dramatised, and the mother...in the opening scenes particularly, is genuinely moving." The ''Age'' called it "impressive".

References

External links

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''Eleventh Hour''
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Australian World War II propaganda films {{WWII-documentary-film-stub