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Source: Australian National Maritime Museum
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Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 Mystery Island
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Film Details - Commonwealth Film Laboratories , 1937

Producers:

George Malcolm

Production Companies:

Commonwealth Film Laboratories

Director of Photography:

George Malcolm

Editors:

Arthur Hansen

Production Designers:

Jack Bruce (Production Manager)

Composer:

Incl. Frank Couglan

Music:

Rex Shaw (Music Director)

Cast:

Incl. Brian Abbott [aka George Rikard Bell] (Morris Carthew), Jean Ladley [aka Jean Mort] (Audrey), William Lane-Bayliff (Captain Druce), William Carroll (Chief Officer Vowels), George Doran (Rev. Abel), Desmond Hay [aka Desmond Hay-Simpson] (Packer), Mollie Kerwin (Miss Forescue), Moncrieff MacCallum (Green), Douglas MacKinnon (Cook), Edward Druitt (Seabright)

Release Dates:

6 March 1937 (Prince Edward Theatre, Sydney).

Location:

  • The film was shot almost entirely on location at an islet on Lord Howe Island in 1936.
Subjects:
  • ca. 1930s
Settings:
  • South Pacific, Pacific Region,
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