
Kenneth Brampton
2021Forty Thousand Horsemen
Charles Chauvel
Grant Taylor, Betty Bryant
Charles Chauvel's 1940 cinematic tribute to the mounted troops of the Australian Light Horse regiments is a rousing call to arms, giving life to the heroic tales of mateship during the Great War.
Forty Thousand Horsemen
Robbery Under Arms
Kenneth Brampton
It's a bush-ranging yarn, very popular at the time, about Captain Starlight, played well by Brampton himself, and his co-horts the Marsden family. Dick Marsden is especially well played by Roland Conway, who is the quintessential Aussie bloke.
Robbery Under Arms
Uncivilised
Charles Chauvel
Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey
A white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, is kidnapped by an Afghan slaver, betrothed to a white jungle-man, and menaced by a jealous half-caste rival, a hostile witch-doctor, his crazed-killer son, and opium smugglers!
Uncivilised
Typhoon Treasure
Noel Monkman
Campbell Copelin, Gwen Munro
Alan Richards is the sole survivor of a pearling lugger which has been shipwrecked on Pakema Reef during a typhoon. He sets out to recover some pearls which went missing in the wreck, crossing through the jungle and fighting headhunters.
Typhoon Treasure