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1899
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Issue Details:
First known date:
1940...
1940
Dad Rudd, M.P.
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Film Details - Cinesound Productions , 1940
Producers:
Ken G. Hall.
Production Companies:
Cinesound Productions.
Director of Photography:
George Heath.
Editors:
William Shepherd.
Production Designers:
Eric Thompson (Art Director).
Composer:
Henry Krips.
Music:
Henry Krips (Music Director).
Cast:
Incl. Bert Bailey (Dad Rudd), Connie Martyn (Mum Rudd), Yvonne East (Ann Rudd), Fred MacDonald (Dave Rudd), Ossie Wenban (Joe), Valerie Scanlan (Sally), Alec Kellaway (q.v., Entwistle), Frank Harvey (Henry Webster), Grant Taylor (Jim Webster), Jean Robertson (Mrs. Webster), Barbara Weekes (Sybil Vane), Ron Whelan (Lewis), Letty Craydon (q.v., Mrs. McGrury), Marshall Crosby (q.v., Ryan), Joe Valli (q.v., MacTavish), Field Fisher (Jenkins), Billy Stewart (Bloggs), Natalie Raine (Susie), Lorna Westbrook (Minnie), Leo Gordon (Fordham), Chips Rafferty (Fireman), Raymond Longford (q.v., Electoral Officer).
Release Dates:
15 June 1940 (Australia).
Released on videocassette format ca. 1990 by the National Film and Sound Archive.
Notes:
Special Effects: J. Alan Kenyon.
Dad Rudd, M.P. was to be both Bert Bailey's and Cinesound's final feature film. Hall also made only one more feature, Smithy, in 1946 (for Columbia Pictures). According to Pike and Cooper (1980), the film became an immediate financial success, and when released in Great Britain later the same year proved to be one of the most popular Australian productions ever screened there (p. 249). They note that the film received more than 1,400 screenings to mid-1941 alone.
Further reference: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Australian Film 1900-1977, A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980), p. 249.
