Double Trouble (1951 film)

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Double Trouble
Directed byLee Robinson
Written byRoland Loewe
StarringFrank Waters
CinematographyFrank Bagnall
Edited byInman Hunter
Production
company
Release date
  • 1951 (1951)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Double Trouble is a docu-drama directed by Lee Robinson about two Australian men intolerant of foreign migrants who find themselves transported to a foreign country.[1]

Unlike most movies from the Australian National Film Board it used professional actors, and gave Lee Robinson invaluable experience directing them prior to his first feature, The Phantom Stockman (1953).[2]

The film has since come to be regarded as historically significant because of its depiction of attitudes towards Australian immigration at the time.[3]

Robinson and editor Inman Hunter later wrote a story for a drama film together which became The Siege of Pinchgut (1959).[4]

Cast[edit]

  • Frank Waters
  • Ken McCarron
  • Maurice Travers
  • Charles Farrell

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Honour For Australia's Little Films". The Sunday Herald. Sydney. 9 August 1953. p. 14. Retrieved 30 August 2015 – via National library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Lee Robinson interview with Albert Moran, Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 1 no 1 (1987)". Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  3. ^ Paul Byrnes, 'Capturing a nation's reinvention', The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 December 2004 accessed 17 December 2011
  4. ^ Robinson, Lee (15 August 1976). "Lee Robinson" (Oral history). Interviewed by Graham Shirley. National Film and Sound Archive.

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