British filmmakers massacre a terrific crime novel
The 1953 sea epic
Our series on dodgy foreign films made of Australian stories takes aim at 1949’s Eureka Stockade, aka “whose idea was it to cast Chips Rafferty as Peter Lalor?” We were
Our series on dodgy foreign movies using Australian stories looks at the Rank Company’s Robbery Under Arms. Once upon a time, Rolf Boldrewood’s bushranging saga Robbery Under Arms, originally published
Stephen Vagg’s series on dodgy film versions of potentially great Aussie stories takes aim at 1959’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Ray Lawler’s death last year drew attention once more
Our series on dodgy foreign screenplays filmed in Australia takes aim at the 1952 Hollywood epic Kangaroo. After World War Two, the major Hollywood studios began making a lot of
This series looks at movies made in Australia, which wrecked perfectly good stories in the process. Writers in Australian theatre/film/television of the 1950s and 1960s faced two main enemies (a)