Английская Википедия:Eleventh Hour (1942 documentary film)

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Infobox film Eleventh Hour is a 1942 Australian short documentary film from director Ken G. Hall for the Department of Information.[1]

It was the third in a series of movies to promote Austerity War Loans, following Another Threshold.[2]

Plot

A woman wonders if the sacrifices of war are worth it. Her first World War veteran husband assures her that it is.

Cast

  • Muriel Steinbeck as the wife
  • John Nugent Hayard as the husband
  • Margaret Sinclair as the daughter in law

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that:

Ken Hall... has used the Anzac Day memorial services with effect... [the film] should rally the dilatory to the war bond booths. Muriel Steinbeck Is splendid... The mournful retrospection of... [the wife]... could with advantage be less insistent in the script, and more heartening implication and less exhortation be given to the propaganda angle of the narrative.[3]

Smith's Weekly said "Nothing is over-dramatised, and the mother...in the opening scenes particularly, is genuinely moving." The Age called it "impressive".[4]

References

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External links

Шаблон:Ken G. Hall

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