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Film Details - Commonwealth Film Laboratories , 1937
Producers:
George Malcolm
Production Companies:
Commonwealth Film Laboratories
Director of Photography:
George Malcolm
Editors:
Arthur Hansen
Production Designers:
Jack Bruce (Production Manager)
Composer:
Incl. Frank Couglan
Music:
Rex Shaw (Music Director)
Cast:
Incl. Brian Abbott [aka George Rikard Bell] (Morris Carthew), Jean Ladley [aka Jean Mort] (Audrey), William Lane-Bayliff (Captain Druce), William Carroll (Chief Officer Vowels), George Doran (Rev. Abel), Desmond Hay [aka Desmond Hay-Simpson] (Packer), Mollie Kerwin (Miss Forescue), Moncrieff MacCallum (Green), Douglas MacKinnon (Cook), Edward Druitt (Seabright)
Release Dates:
6 March 1937 (Prince Edward Theatre, Sydney).
Location:
- The film was shot almost entirely on location at an islet on Lord Howe Island in 1936.
Settings:
- South Pacific, Pacific Region,
