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Adaptation of
Oh What a Night
1928
First known date:
1932
Issue Details:
First known date:
1932...
1932
Oh What A Night
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Film Details - Efftee Film Productions , 1932
Producers:
Frank Thring
Production Companies:
Efftee Film productions
Cast:
Includes George Wallace (John), Nell Stirling (Mary), Marshall Crosbie (Mike Malone), John Dobbie (The Policeman).
Release Dates:
The first public screening identified to date was at the Regent Theatre, Adelaide on 23 April 1932. The feature film was Pat Hanna's Diggers.
Notes:
1. The National Archives of Australia and the Fryer Library, The University of Queensland, hold copies of the screenplay as submitted to the Copyright Office by Frank Thring. NAA original copy (ID No A1336, 22829) can be accessed online.
2. ScreenSound Australia’s video compilation, 'Efftee Entertainers,' attributed the direction of Oh! What a Night! to its star and not to its official director, F. W. Thring (ctd. Lesley Speed. 'The Comedian Comedies: George Wallace's 1930s Comedies, Australian Cinema and Hollywood.' Metro, 158, September 2008, p. 77).
