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]
| Double Trouble | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Lee Robinson |
| Written by | Roland Loewe |
| Starring | Frank Waters |
| Cinematography | Frank Bagnall |
| Edited by | Inman Hunter |
Production company | |
Release date | 1951 |
Running time | 10 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
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
- ^ "Honour For Australia's Little Films". The Sunday Herald. Sydney. 9 August 1953. p. 14. Retrieved 30 August 2015 – via National library of Australia.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Paul Byrnes, 'Capturing a nation's reinvention', The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 December 2004 accessed 17 December 2011
- ^ Robinson, Lee (15 August 1976). "Lee Robinson" (Oral history). Interviewed by Graham Shirley. National Film and Sound Archive.
External links edit
- Double Trouble[permanent dead link] at National Film and Sound Archive
- Double Trouble at IMDb
- Copy of movie on YouTube
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