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Film Details - Chamun Productions , 1944
Producers:
Charles Chauvel
Production Companies:
Chamun Productions
Director of Photography:
George Heath
Editors:
Gus Lowry
Composer:
Lindley Evans
Cast:
Incl. Grant Taylor (Bluey Donkin), Peter Finch (Peter Linton), Chips Rafferty (Milo Trent), George Wallace (the barber of Tobruk), Pauline Garrick (Kate Carmody), Mary Gay (Sister Mary Ellis), Joe Valli (the Northumberland Fusilier), John Sherwood, Walter Pym, Norman Blackler, Gilbert Ellis, Robert Carlyle, Joe Anderson, Toni Villa (Japanese soldier), Edward Esau, George Gentry, Walter Pym.
Release Dates:
Australia 7 December 1944; United Kingdom 1949; USA 23 May 1951 (New York City); Japan 1956.
Distributed in Australia by RKO.
Location:
- Sydney. Incl. Cronulla sandhills, Commonwealth Film Laboratories, Camden (outer Sydney), Lamington Plateau (NSW). Army photographers also shot footage in Papua New Guinea for use in the movie
Settings:
- North Africa, Africa,
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cPapua New Guinea,cPacific Region,
- ca. 1940-1941
- ca. 1942-1944
