Along the Movie Trail with Chauvel: A Blog

Author: Ric Carlsson

  • December 12, 2012
    Posted by scarlsson at 09:39, December 12 2012. The Chauvels’ career took a totally different direction with their last venture,…
  • December 12, 2012
    Excerpts from biography: “Their two landrovers amusingly bore number plates commencing with the words BAN and BAD, perhaps not the…
  • September 14, 2012
    Posted by scarlsson at 10:00, September 14 2012. The settings for JEDDA were eclectically-chosen from many beautiful parts of the…
  • September 14, 2012
    “Jedda” is the story of an Aboriginal girl caught between two cultures, and the tragic consequences. She has been raised…
  • July 2, 2012
    The saga of making “Sons of Matthew” equalled the drama of the story itself. After reading Bernard O’Reilly’s books, “Cullenbenbong”…
  • June 28, 2012
    Posted by scarlsson at 10:00, June 28 2012. We’re in Queensland! No other town in Australia has featured as much…
  • April 24, 2012
    Posted by scarlsson at 10:00, April 24 2012. Currans Hill today is deemed a suburb of Camden. In 1942 it…
  • April 23, 2012
    RATS OF TOBRUK - 1944A story of Aussie heroism in the Tobruk chapter of World War 1, when men of…
  • February 25, 2012
    There was a swashbuckling element of adventure behind the making of ‘Horsemen’, yet this film was a turning point in…
  • February 8, 2012
    Posted by scarlsson at 10:00, February 8 2012. What a difference between Kurnell today and the sweeping sand dune country…