NFSA/SFF to search for lost Cecil Holmes film
The National Film and Sound Archive and the Sydney Film Festival are planning to launch a search for the 1953 film Captain Thunderbolt, the first feature directed by Cecil Holmes.
“We’re delighted to have a partnership with the NFSA around this search,” festival director Clare Stewart told Encore.
The NFSA and the SFF are working to find a copy of the film based on the life of Frederick Wordsworth Ward, the NSW bushranger known as Captain Thunderbolt.
Those who saw the film, and they were few, in its one week at the Sydney Lyric (not really a first release house anyway) will have tongues hanging out for another and proper look at the wonderful camera work by Ross Wood. Go, NFSA! Go, SFF!
That Max Brown would be the author of the book ‘Wild Turkey’, a very sour report using slightly disguise of the shenanigans at the South Australian location for Fox filming the 1950 ‘Kangaroo’. The base in Port Augusta West (ugh) was dubbed Zanuckville by the insect-assaulted inhabitants.
Pssst. It’s in the Billiard with Professor Plum beside the dagger.