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Film Details - Arthur Higgins Productions , 1928
Production Companies:
Arthur Higgins Productions.
Distributed by Australasian Films.
Director of Photography:
Arthur Higgins and Tasman Higgins.
Editors:
Arthur Higgins and Sheila Moore.
Cast:
Including Phyllis Gibbs, Arthur Tauchert, Robert Purdy, 'Check' Hayes, Stella Southern, and John Faulkner.
Phyllis Gibbs was described in newspaper reports as 'winner of Australasian Films Beauty Contest'. The competition is also referred to in newspaper reports as the 'Australasian Film Contest' and the 'Unshingled Beauty Competition'.
Newspaper reports also made much of the film's association with the Australian racing fraternity. For example, the Townsville Daily Bulletin notes that the film 'introduces every eminent horse and man in Australian racing life, including Statesman, Limerick, Winalot, Sans Culotte, Mollison, and jockeys McCarten, Pike, Toohey, Billy Mchachlan [sic], Marsden, Muro and Ashley Reed.' ('Odds On', Townsville Daily Bulletin, 19 November 1928, p.3)
Release Dates:
6 October 1928.
Location:
- Filmed in Sydney, including morning training sessions at Randwick Racecourse and cabaret scenes at Sydney restaurant Romano's.
