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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 6, 2017 6:57:42 GMT
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 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... Hardly. Australia produced one feature film a year on average in the 1950s, and maintained that average in the 1960s. Around 1969 or so the number of films increased greatly. By 1971 around 20 a year were being made. I actually looked up every year for Australian film on IMDb from the 1930s to early 1980s, so I have a good idea about how many films were being made. |
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