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Film Details - Efftee Film Productions , 1933

Producers:

F. W. Thring

Production Companies:

Efftee Film Productions

Director of Photography:

Arthur Higgins

Production Designers:

W. R. Coleman (Art Director)

Cast:

Incl. George Wallace (Officer Dreadnought), Phyllis Baker (Molly), Marshall Crosby (the sergeant), John Dobbie (Slogger Lee), Willie Kerr (Leonard), Bill Innes (Detective Brooks), Edwin Brett (the father), Norman Shepherd (the butler), Norman French (the husband), Bebe Scott (the wife), Gertrude Boswell (the housekeeper), Leonard Stephens (the Ferret), Dan Thomas, Nell Fleming, Nell Crane, Elza Stenning, Thelma Scott, Dorothy Weeks, Johnny Marks, Campbell Copelin.

Release Dates:

11 February 1933 (Hoyts Deluxe, Melbourne - premiere). Harmony Row was screened jointly with Pat Hanna's Diggers in Blighty. Distributed throughout Australia and New Zealand by Universal, both films were invariably screened together.

Notes:

1. The initial release included a long sequence in which Wallace's character attempts to uncover the mystery behind a supposedly haunted mansion. The producers later deleted this scene and inserted a newly filmed scene in its place. The new sequence involves Dreadnought arresting an upper-class gentleman (played by Campbell Copelin) whom he has mistaken for a thief. Copelin did not receive a credit in the film's titles, however. Marshall Crosby, who originally played Inspector Brown in the revusical version, was cast in this film version as Dreadnought's sergeant.

2. Further reference: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Australian Film 1900-1977, A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980), p. 213.

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