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Film Details
- Kathner-Tolhurst Australian Productions,1937
Producers:
Rupert Kathner and Stan Tolhurst.
Production Companies:
Kathner-Tolhurst Australian Productions.
Director of Photography:
Rupert Kathner.
Music:
Rex Shaw.
Cast:
Including Stan Tolhurst (Lassiter), Bryce Russell (Lasiter's companion), Captain A.C. Stevens (Narrator), Reg King [bushman and mining engineer] (as himself), Bob Buck [bushman, and finder of Lassiiter's body] (as himself), W.L. Pittendrigh [airman who flew out to locate Lassiter] (as himself), and 'Old Warts' [Central Australian Indigenous Australian man who was acquainted with Lassiter] (as himself).
Release Dates:
Released in mid 1937.
Location:
Filmed on location.
Contemporary advertisements made much of the fact that the film was 'Actually Produced 500 Miles from Civilization, in the GRIM DEAD HEART OF AUSTRALIA' (Singleton Argus, 18 June 1937, p.7).
