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Film Details - Commonwealth Film Laboratories , 1938
Producers:
R.L. Wilkinson
Production Companies:
Commonwealth Film Laboratories
Director of Photography:
George Malcolm,
Harry Malcom
A. B. Cummings (underwater)
Production Designers:
Harry Whiting
Cast:
Incl. Campbell Copelin (Alan Richards), Gwen Monroe (Jean Roberts), Joe Valli (Scotty McLeod), Douglas Herald (Buck Thompson), Kenneth Brampton (Alfred Webb), Norman French (Patrol Officer), Utah (Native), Marshall Crosby, Moncrieff Macallum, Ossie Wenban, Douglas Channell, Benjamin Brown.
Release Dates:
September 1938 (Australia). Released in the USA on 24 June 1939. A slightly abridged version was released in the UK in 1943.
Location:
- Filmed primarily on location in the Great Barrier Reef and North Queensland. Underwater scenes were filmed off Green Island (near Cairns). The few interior scenes were shot at the Commonwealth Film Laboratories studios at the Sydney Showground.
Notes:
Further reference: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Australian Film 1900-1977, A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980, q.v.), pp.239-240.
Subjects:
- ca. 1930s
Settings:
- North Pacific, Pacific Region,
