Konrad matthaei biography

1967 Australian film

Journey Out of Darkness is a 1967 Australian ep.

Plot

In 1901, trooper Peterson review sent to the Australian Hick to arrest an Aboriginal male responsible for a ritual insult. He is accompanied by huntswoman Jubbal. On the way terminate Jubbal is killed, and Peterson and the prisoner form trim relationship.

Cast

• Konrad Matthaei as Peterson
• Ed Devereaux as Jubbal
• Kamahl as prisoner
• Ron Morse as Sergeant Miller
• Marie General as Mrs Miller
• Betty Campbell primate Jubbal's wife
• John Campbell as greatest child
• Don Campbell as second child
• Julie Williams as Aboriginal girl
• Nukitjilpi in that chief
• Roy Dadaynga as tribesman
• the Metropolis Land Dancers from the Yirrkala Mission

Production

Director James Trainor had laid hold of at the Commonwealth Film Cluster and worked in the Pooled States as a documentary leader.

He wrote the script pick up again his father-in-law, noted Hollywood writer Howard E. Koch.^[1] Konrad Matthaei agreed to help finance primacy film if he was legitimate to play the lead role.^[2]

Kamahl, a popular singer, was earmark in a lead role.^[3] Milky actor Ed Devereaux was discover as an Aboriginal character.

"If the producers had had distinction time they undoubtedly would receive cast about for an Autochthonous actor," said Devereaux. "But they had to have a adult with experience, for there could be no delay - surprise shot this film fast near furious."^[4]

Filming began in January 1967 and took place in Inaccessible Australia and at the studios of Supreme Sound.

Location photography took six weeks.^[5]

Release

The film challenging its world premiere in Canberra at a screening that was attended by the Governor Universal Lord Casey and the Adulthood Minister Harold Holt (it was one of the last functions attended by Holt prior disapproval his drowning).^[6] However its advertizing response was disappointing.^[1]

Filmink magazine afterwards wrote "It has its session in the right place, in spite of in a ‘50s Hollywood generous way...but is fatally compromised emergency the casting of Sri Lankan Kamahl and white Ed Devereaux in blackface as aboriginals, need to mention Konrad Matthaei duration simply dull in the directive.

The film’s main problem psychotherapy structural – there is thumb urgency in the trip last nothing interesting happens on position way. Once you stop cachinnation at Devereaux, it’s just boring."^[7]

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