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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 5, 2017 23:42:12 GMT

Apr 5, 2017 18:49:27 GMT teleadm said:

While searching a thread searching for something else I stumbled upon an Australian movie called Walk Into Paradise/Walk Into Hell 1958 that also was nominated for a Palm d'Or, this time for director Lee Robinson, and who also lost. Lee Robinson would later be the producer of the TV-series Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo in the 1960s, maybe Australias first exported TV-series (??).

Seems that Lee Robinson together with actor Chips Raffety, tried to start up an Australian film production company, aiming both for the local market and for the international markets.

American producer Joseph E. Levine purchased the film for distribution, and retitled it to Walk Into Hell.

I have not personally seen this movie but for those interested, from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Into_Paradise

Thanks for your thoughts here teleadam... a surprise to see your mention of the film Walk into Paradise (1956) I have a copy on the way from ordering earlier this week!, looks like a great adventure and exciting on location filming in PNG.
I recently saw an earlier Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty collaboration Kings Of The Coral Sea (1954) which is a good adventure story with great location shooting in the North of Australia, and is also noted for it's interesting documentation of pearl shell divers , the luggers they sailed in and the equipment they used.

The duo of Robinson & Rafferty formed the Southern International Productions film company in the early 50s and made five features the last in 1959. The success locally and internationally of the two films mentioned above helped finance further productions,and the Australian industry had a promising future, but the following films were box office failures which coincided at the time with the rising popularity of television, the company was liquidated and Australian film production practically disappeared in the 60s...