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Film Details - McDonagh Productions , 1930
Production Companies:
McDonagh Films.
Director of Photography:
Jack Fletcher.
Production Designers:
Paulette McDonagh (art direction).
Music:
The film was caught up in a protest by the Musicians' Union against the use of 'canned' music, as a result of which the union banned its members from playing for 'talking pictures'. Newspaper in early 1930 report on the McDonagh sisters' struggle to acquire an orchestra for the sound version of their film. (See, for example, 'Australian Talking Films: Musicians Refuse to Play', Barrier Miner, 15 March 1930, p.1).
Cast:
Including Marie Lorraine (Paula Marsh), Arthur Greenaway (Richard Marsh), John Faulkner (John Travers), Josef Bambach (Lee Travers), Nellie McNiven (Mrs Hugh Nash), Elaine de Chair (Louise Nash), Frank Hawthorne (Keith Manion), Leal Douglas (The Lady), Stanley Court (Jules Severie), and Reg Quartly (Jan).
Release Dates:
Premiered in a private screening at the Roxy Theatre on 1 June 1930.
At the 2018 Melbourne International Film Festival, a restored copy of the film (by the NFSA, from the only remaining 35mm nitrate print) was shown for a single screening.
At the 2019 Sydney Film Festival, the silent version was shown, with live piano accompaniment by Jan Preston (5 June 2019).
Awards:
- One of four films entered for that year's Commonwealth Film Prize.
