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form y The Rats of Tobruk single work film/TV

Alternative title: The Fighting Rats of Tobruk

Authors:agent Elsa Chauvel , Charles Chauvel , Maxwell Dunn .

Note: Maxwell Dunn is credited with writing the narrative.

Issue Details: First known date: 1944... 1944 The Rats of Tobruk

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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

Subjects:

Settings:

North Africa, Africa,
c
Papua New Guinea,
c
Pacific Region,
y ca. 1940-1941
y ca. 1942-1944

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