Landtakers is a 1934 Australian novel by Brian Penton.
Premise edit
The story of Derek Cabell, an English immigrant to the Moreton Bay settlement in the 1840s.[1]
The Inheritors edit
It was followed by a sequel The Inheritors (1936) which was set in Queensland in the 1870s.[2][3]
It was less popular.[4]
Kangaroo edit
When Lewis Milestone was in Australia making Kangaroo for 20th Century Fox he was contacted by Penton who offered the director the use of material from his books Landtakers and The Inheritors. Milestone loved the books and felt "they would make marvellous pictures of their type."[5] He tried to persuade Fox to drop the script for Kangaroo and film the Penton books instead but the studio refused. However Milestone used some material from the novels in the final script, in particular treatment of drought.[6]
Notes edit
- Higham, Charles; Greenberg, Joel (1971). The celluloid muse; Hollywood directors speak. Regnery. pp. 188–190.
References edit
- ^ "A BOOK NOTE". The Australian Worker. New South Wales, Australia. 1 August 1934. p. 11. Retrieved 10 June 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ "REVIEW". Illawarra Mercury. New South Wales, Australia. 23 October 1936. p. 3. Retrieved 10 June 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ "NEW NOVELS". The Australasian. Victoria, Australia. 19 September 1936. p. 5. Retrieved 10 June 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ Patrick Buckridge, 'Penton, Brian Con (1904–1951)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/penton-brian-con-11367/text20307, published first in hardcopy 2000, accessed online 10 June 2020.
- ^ Higham p 189
- ^ Higham p 189-190
External links edit
- Landtakers at AustLit
- Complete text at Project Gutenberg
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