Eleventh Hour (1942 documentary film)
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| Directed by | Ken G. Hall |
| Produced by | Ken G. Hall |
| Starring | Muriel Steinbeck John Nugent Hayward Margaret Sinclair |
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1942 |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Eleventh Hour is a 1942 Australian short documentary film from director Ken G. Hall for the Department of Information.
It was the third in a series of movies to promote Austerity War Loans, following Another Threshold.[1]
Contents
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.[2]
Smith's Weekly said "Nothing is over-dramatised, and the mother...in the opening scenes particularly, is genuinely moving." The Age called it "impressive".[3]
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Eleventh Hour at IMDb
- Eleventh Hour at National Film and Sound Archive
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