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A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies. Directed by John Power. Starring Rod Taylor, John Meillon in the lead roles.
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A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies. Directed by John Power. Starring Rod Taylor, John Meillon in the lead roles.
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1977 | John
Best Film | 1977
Best Actor in a Lead Role | 1977
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1977
Best Screenplay Original or Adapted | 1977
1977 | John
Last cinema film of Patrick Cargill.
Three of the four films shown by Pym are not specifically identified. The first seems to be The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926) starring Adolphe Menjou and Florence Vidor. The other two are impossible to identify from the short clips shown. One seems to be something like a Tom Mix western. The last contains no recognisable stars and seems to be set in India. No film details nor copyright acknowledgements are included in the credits, except for the one identified film, On Our Selection (1920).
This movie was based on the real life experiences and adventures of Lyle Penn who, as a youth, accompanied his picture-show man father on the road in Australia exhibiting films.
Lyle Penn sent producer Joan Long his unpublished autobiographical manuscript on the early traveling picture shows after he saw her in a 1973 interview on Newcastle television in New South Wales. Long was promoting her Australian film history documentaries The Pictures That Moved: Australian Cinema 1896-1920 (1968) and The Passionate Industry (1971) which Long directed. Long eventually read the manuscript and Penn asked Long if she could collaborate on a new draft of it but Long declined. Long recommended a writer to do this and mentioned that the property could be developed into a feature film. Long ended up writing the screenplay for this film.
First Australian film featuring expatriate Australian star actor Rod Taylor after his phenomenal success in Hollywood where Taylor had become an internationally renown name.
"Maurice 'Pop' Pym: My name is Pym. This is Freddie Graves. We're in moving pictures. Fitzwilliam: Fitzwilliam. My partner Madam Cavalli. We're in debt. [laughs]"
"Lou: Would you be able to carry a passenger? Palmer: You're a pianist, aren't ya? Lou: I was. Palmer: Would you be looking for a job? Lou: As a matter of fact I am."
