| Eleventh Hour | |
| Director: | Ken G. Hall |
| Producer: | Ken G. Hall |
| Starring: | Muriel Steinbeck John Nugent Hayward Margaret Sinclair |
| Distributor: | Columbia |
| Studio: | Cinesound Productions |
| Runtime: | 11 minutes |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
Eleventh Hour is a 1942 Australian short documentary film from director Ken G. Hall for the Department of Information.[1]
It was the third in a series of movies to promote Austerity War Loans, following Another Threshold.[2]
A woman wonders if the sacrifices of war are worth it. Her first World War veteran husband assures her that it is.
The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that:
Ken Hall... has used the Anzac Day memorial services with effect... [the film] should rally the dilatory to the war bond booths. Muriel Steinbeck Is splendid... The mournful retrospection of... [the wife]... could with advantage be less insistent in the script, and more heartening implication and less exhortation be given to the propaganda angle of the narrative.[3]Smith's Weekly said "Nothing is over-dramatised, and the mother...in the opening scenes particularly, is genuinely moving." The Age called it "impressive".[4]