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From The Daily News, 20 October 1933, p.9
Adaptation of
The Squatter's Daughter, or, The Land of the Wattle
1907
single work
drama
Issue Details:
First known date:
1933...
1933
The Squatter's Daughter
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Film Details - Cinesound Productions , 1933
Producers:
Ken G. Hall
Production Companies:
Cinesound Productions
Director of Photography:
Frank Hurley
George Malcolm
Composer:
F. Morton Chappell
Cast:
Incl. Constance Worth [credited as Jocelyn Howarth] (Joan Enderby), Grant Lyndsay (Wayne Ridgeway), John Warwick (Clive Sherrington), Fred MacDonald (Shearer), W. Lane-Bayliff (Old Ironbark), Dorothy Dunckley (Miss Ramsbottom), Owen Ainley (Jimmy), Cathleen Esler (Zena), George Cross, Claude Turton (Jebal Zim), George Lloyd (Shearer), Les Warton (Fletcher), Katie Towers (Poppy), Will Gilbert, Victor Knight.
Release Dates:
29 September 1933 (Civic Theatre, Sydney)
Location:
- Filmed largely on location at Wallacia (Penrith, NSW) and Goonoo Goonoo sheep station, near Tamworth, NSW. Interior scenes were filmed at the Cinesound studio in Bondi (Sydney).
Notes:
1. Filmed on a budget of £16,000, the film was promoted in advertising as 'A Mighty Epic of Australia's Great Open Spaces.' The premiere season in Sydney ran for ten weeks, and the film was later exhibited throughout Australia and New Zealand, eventually grossing over £25,000. The Squatter's Daughter was sold to M.G.M. in England for £7,000 and retitled Down Under. The British film critics were largely unimpressed with the film, however.
2. Further reference: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Australian Film 1900-1977, A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980, q.v.), pp. 215-216
Subjects:
- Bush,
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
