form y separately published work icon The Kingdom of Twilight single work   film/TV  
Alternative title: Tanami
Issue Details: First known date: 1929... 1929 The Kingdom of Twilight
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Film Details - Seven Seas Screen Productions , 1929

Production Companies:

Seven Seas Screen Productions.

Director of Photography:

Lacey Percival and Walter Sully.

Cast:

Including Wendy Osborne (Dorothy Carrington), John Faulkner (Jim Carrington), Rex Arnot (McCrimmon), David Wallace (Reginald Carewe), Henrick Corbett (Pubby Markham), Laurel Macdonald (Baby), and Len Norman (Tanami).
Dorothy Osbourne and David Wallace were both Australian actors who had been working overseas, and had come to Australia with Alexander Macdonald for the production of the film; Osbourne was married to Macdonald.

Release Dates:

Seemingly released in London in 1929, the film does not appear to have been given an Australian release, although it was given a limited release in Chillagoe, the town in which it was partly filmed, in 1932. (See, for example, 'Chillagoe Notes', Townsville Daily Bulletin, 8 January 1932, p.7.)

Location:

  • Filmed in Chillagoe, in northern Queensland.
Subjects:
Settings:
  • North Queensland, Queensland,
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