Maxwell Dunn Maxwell Dunn i(A149486 works by)
Born: Established: 1916 Launceston, Northeast Tasmania, Tasmania, ; Died: Ceased: 1965 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon How They Made Sons of Matthew Maxwell Dunn , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1949 Z1887986 1949 single work prose A book-lengh account of the genesis, development and filming of Chauvel's film.
1 form y separately published work icon The Hansard Story Maxwell Dunn , 1949 (Manuscript version)9150992 9150986 1949 single work radio play
1 11 form y separately published work icon The Rats of Tobruk The Fighting Rats of Tobruk Elsa Chauvel , Charles Chauvel , Maxwell Dunn , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) Sydney : Chamun Productions , 1944 6939175 1944 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units)

Australia's only fully war-time feature, The Rats of Tobruk focuses on three friends who are cattle droving in the outback just before the outbreak of World War II. By 1941, restless Bluey Donkin, easy-going Milo Trent, and Shakespeare-quoting Englishman Peter Linton have decided to join the Australian Imperial Forces (A.I.F.) and later find themselves in North Africa fighting Rommel's army.

After early successes against the Italian army, the Australian 9th Division finds itself besieged in Tobruk. When not fighting, the men have comic encounters with a barber, while Peter falls for a nurse, Sister Mary, after being wounded. The other two men are also later wounded, but it is Peter who is eventually killed just before the others are able to repel the enemy. Bluey and Milo are then later transferred to New Guinea, where Bluey is injured and Milo killed by a sniper. Bluey manages to kill the sniper.

A romance subplot occurs between Bluey (who prior to leaving Australia was not prepared to settle down with any woman) and the daughter of a squatter, Kate, who is in love with him. When Bluey finally returns home, he and Kate are united.

1 form y separately published work icon Nick Carter Maxwell Dunn , 1941-1949 (Manuscript version)9181978 9181973 1941 single work radio play detective
3 form y separately published work icon Dishonour Be My Destiny Maxwell Dunn , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1940 8883440 1940 single work radio play

A radio play based on the life of William T.G. Morton, an American physician responsible for the first public demonstration of the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic on 16 October 1846. Morton subsequently attempted to patent ether, and spent much of his life trying to establish himself as its discoverer.

Contemporary newspapers indicate that Dunn took a romantic approach to the story:

By the city of Boston, Massachussets, in the cemetery of Mt. Auburn, there is a monument of white marble inscribed to William Thomas Morton, 'Inventor and Revealer of Anaesthetic Inhalation, by whom pain in surgery was averted and annulled; before whom in all time surgery was agony; since whom science has control of Pain.' 'Dishonour Be My Destiny' gives the story of the man who achieved one of the greatest victories the long history of medicine has known, but whose victory was changed to crushing defeat by the selfishness and ingratitude of man.

Source:

'Dishonour Be My Destiny', Northern Champion, 16 November 1940, p.2.

1 form y separately published work icon Stateroom One : A Radio Drama Written for Broadcasting Maxwell Dunn , 1939 (Manuscript version)9150957 9150951 1939 single work radio play
1 form y separately published work icon The Acid Test : A Dramatic Episode for the Microphone The Acid Test Maxwell Dunn , 1939 (Manuscript version)9150854 9150848 1939 single work radio play
1 form y separately published work icon Circumstantial Evidence Maxwell Dunn , 1938 (Manuscript version)9150703 9150697 1938 single work radio play
2 form y separately published work icon Light Sinister : A Radio Play of the Sea Maxwell Dunn , 1937 (Manuscript version)9150613 9150607 1937 single work radio play
1 form y separately published work icon Cross Roads to Nowhere : A Play for Radio Maxwell Dunn , 1937 (Manuscript version)9150423 9150417 1937 single work radio play
1 form y separately published work icon The Perfect Butler : Adapted for Radio Presentation Maxwell Dunn , Brisbane : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1935 9149576 1935 single work radio play

'A modern domestic comedy in which the wife and husband have several misunderstandings - and wherein the butler takes it into his own hands to settle very effectively one estrangement, provides the plot for 'The Perfect Butler'...'

Source: 'The Perfect Butler', The Telegraph, 16 January 1935, p.17.

1 form y separately published work icon They Called It Armistice : An Eleventh of November Fantasy Written for the Microphone Maxwell Dunn , 1930-1939 (Manuscript version)9149413 9149406 1930 single work radio play
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