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the Allied cause. More engrossing than a major screen story, it outlines an amazing achievement, one which audiences here will find is much greater and more versatile than they had imagined.... The acting on the whole is so convincing and the varied
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fame), and the servicemen types are quite inadequate. The pictorial representation of factory development, of farm and pasture, and of the Allied Works
Council projects, is good, but in all else Producer-Director Ken G. Hall has made a far too low assessment of the intelligence of his prospective
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called it "a grand job" with
Rafferty being "the finest piece of telling playing to the film". However although the critic thought the movie was "Strong on propaganda, on magnificent photography, on commentary, and on Ken Hall's smooth production" he thought using "well-known actors to play the
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Australian voices are as distinctive in it as the clear atmosphere and the eucalypts... The Americans and English for whom the film is intended will see the best exposition yet sent abroad of our war effort, our vast spaces (and let me get this in: Iām thinking of
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An RAAF pilot banters with an RAF pilot in New Guinea. They go off on a mission. An RAF mechanic and RAAF mechanic banter and worry about their pilots. Then with an
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was not sufficiently realistic and vivid to do justice to Australian services fighting in the South-west Pacific area; he wanted a better portrayal of the war in this zone, with more emphasis on fighting troops.
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in no way reflects on the ability of Cinesound Productions Ltd. as producers of motion pictures. That company was asked to do a Pacific film and it did so in accordance with the specifications given to it."
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who was present at the screening, one viewer said it had "enough ham to feed the whole Australian army". The journalist went on to criticise the film:
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