Eureka Stockade (1949)
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Released in the U.S. as Massacre Hill, the Australian Eureka Stockade was one of that country's biggest and most expensive postwar productions (it was nearly two years in the making!) Set during the 19th-century Australian gold rush, the film top-bills Chips Rafferty as boisterous prospector Peter Lallor. The gold bonanza is threatened by the arrival of claim-jumpers, usurpers and government bean-counters. At first, the prospectors intend to use random mob violence to ward off the invaders, but Lallor organizes the group into a strong, united front, as willing to mediate as to bust heads. Future star Peter Finch is eighth-billed as "Humffray." Eureka Stockade was remade years later as a TV miniseries. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson, (more)
- Director(s):
- Harry Watt
Synopsis of Eureka Stockade
Released in the U.S. as Massacre Hill, the Australian Eureka Stockade was one of that country's biggest and most expensive postwar productions (it was nearly two years in the making!) Set during the 19th-century Australian gold rush, the film top-bills Chips Rafferty as boisterous prospector Peter Lallor. The gold bonanza is threatened by the arrival of claim-jumpers, usurpers and government bean-counters. At first, the prospectors intend to use random mob violence to ward off the invaders, but Lallor organizes the group into a strong, united front, as willing to mediate as to bust heads. Future star Peter Finch is eighth-billed as "Humffray." Eureka Stockade was remade years later as a TV miniseries. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Eureka Stockade
- Chips Rafferty - Peter Lalor
- Peter Finch - Humffray
- Jack Lambert - Commissioner Rede
- Ralph Truman - Gov. Hotham
- Grant Taylor - Sergeant Major Milne
- John Fegan - Hayes
- Dorothy Alison - Mrs. Bentley
- Al Thomas - Scobie
- Gordon Jackson - Tom Kennedy
- Jane Barrett - Alicia Dunne
- Peter Illing - Raffaello
- John Fernside - Sly Grog Seller
- Kevin Brennan - Black
- Ron Whelan - Bentley
- John Cazabon
- Grant Tyler - Sgt. Maj. Milne
- Director(s):
- Harry Watt
- Writer(s):
- Harry Watt, Walter Greenwood
- Producer(s):
- Leslie Norman
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