Double Trouble (1951 film) explained

Double Trouble
Director:Lee Robinson
Starring:Frank Waters
Cinematography:Frank Bagnall
Editing:Inman Hunter
Studio:Australian National Film Board
Runtime:10 minutes
Country:Australia
Language:English

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]

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]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Honour For Australia's Little Films. . . Sydney . 9 August 1953 . 30 August 2015 . 14 . National library of Australia.
  2. Web site: Lee Robinson interview with Albert Moran, Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 1 no 1 (1987) . 16 December 2011 . 1 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190401061747/https://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/1.1/Robinson.html . dead .
  3. http://www.smh.com.au/news/Film/Capturing-a-nations-reinvention/2004/12/08/1102182353582.html Paul Byrnes, 'Capturing a nation's reinvention', The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 December 2004
  4. Robinson . Lee . Graham Shirley . Lee Robinson . Oral history . 15 August 1976 . National Film and Sound Archive.