form y separately published work icon Oh What A Night single work   film/TV   humour  
Adaptation of Oh What a Night George Wallace , 1928
First known date: 1932 Issue Details: First known date: 1932... 1932 Oh What A Night
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Film Details - Efftee Film Productions , 1932

Producers:

Frank Thring

Production Companies:

Efftee Film productions

Cast:

Includes George Wallace (John), Nell Stirling (Mary), Marshall Crosbie (Mike Malone), John Dobbie (The Policeman).

Release Dates:

The first public screening identified to date was at the Regent Theatre, Adelaide on 23 April 1932. The feature film was Pat Hanna's Diggers.

Notes:

1. The National Archives of Australia and the Fryer Library, The University of Queensland, hold copies of the screenplay as submitted to the Copyright Office by Frank Thring. NAA original copy (ID No A1336, 22829) can be accessed online.

2. ScreenSound Australia’s video compilation, 'Efftee Entertainers,' attributed the direction of Oh! What a Night! to its star and not to its official director, F. W. Thring (ctd. Lesley Speed. 'The Comedian Comedies: George Wallace's 1930s Comedies, Australian Cinema and Hollywood.' Metro, 158, September 2008, p. 77).


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