AustLit

'Philippe Mora on the Making and Selling of Australian Myth' (Source : Blurb)

In this unusual take on the traditional werewolf story, a race of humanoid marsupials is discovered deep in the Australian bush. A sociologist studying this seemingly new species falls in love with one of the women, and removes her from her isolated lifestyle--with dangerous results.

The film bears no connection (either in plot, location, or cast) to its putative predecessors, The Howling and The Howling II.

A dramatisation of the trial and execution of murderer and American soldier Edward Leonski in 1942.

Captain Invincible is a popular super-hero during World War II. But in the 1950s, he is subjected to McCarthyist persecution on charges ranging from being a Communist (because he wears a red cape) to wearing underwear in public. Disillusioned, he drops out of public view, moves to Australia, and drinks heavily. But when his old nemesis, Mr Midnight, re-emerges, the American government must call on Captain Invincible once again.

Beginning in Australia in the late 1940s, when movie theatres were the only source of audiovisual news coverage, the narrative follows the exploits of Len Maguire and his young sidekick Chris as they cover the big news stories for the Cinetone newsreel company. Len is a doggedly dependable and ever-cautious senior cameraman, trapped in a world of changing values. Len always knows the right thing to do, but becomes troubled as his marriage falters, his job becomes threatened by the arrival of television, and Cinetone is taken over and its work marginalised. Len's loyalties to the Catholic Church, the Labor Party, and his family are juxtaposed against both his brother/rival cameraman Frank--who sells out his values, abandons his responsibilities, and heads off to success in the USA--and his cocky young assistant, Chris.

The first feature film for Phillip Noyce, Newsfront also depicts the increasing changes to the Australian cultural and political landscape, tracing social shifts from the first waves of European post-war immigration through to the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

After enduring a prison sentence and attempting to eke out an existence on the Victorian goldfields, Daniel Morgan teams up with an Indigenous Australian outcast called Billy. Together, they terrorise southern NSW, killing policemen and raiding farms. Eventually, the authorities raise the reward for Morgan's capture to £1000, thus making his attempts to avoid capture even more difficult. He eventually crosses back into Victoria, but his behaviour has become increasingly erratic. Meanwhile, the police, led by Detective Mainwaring, close in.