They Found a Cave
7.6 /10 1 Votes7.6
Director Andrew Steane Country Australia | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Adventure, Drama, Family Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 20 December 1962 (Australia) Writer William Eldridge, James Pearson Initial release December 20, 1962 (Australia) Cast Peter Conrad, Mervyn Wiss, Barbara Manning Screenplay William Eldridge, James Pearson |
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They Found a Cave is a 1962 Australian children's adventure film directed by Andrew Steane. The movie was originally made from a book by the same name by author Nan Chauncy. In 2010, a company called Argosy Films, set up a website to find the production crew and actors/actresses of They Found a Cave and Bungala Boys for the 50th anniversary.
Contents
Plot
Four English orphans – Cherry, Nigel, Brick and Nippy – migrate to Tasmania, to the care of their Aunt Jandie on her farm outside Hobart. Their arrival is greeted with enthusiasm by young farm boy Tas, and weeks of exploration and good times follow before Aunt Jandie enters hospital, leaving the children in the care of Ma and Pa Pinner, her foreman and housekeeper.
A few days of tyrannical treatment by the Pinners force the children to seek refuge in a secret cave, where they set up home to await the return of Jandie. Despite Pa's repeated efforts to recapture them, it is here the children stay until Nigel's secret trip to town uncovers a plot by the Pinners to abandon the farm and swindle Aunt Jandie.
Cast
Production
The Australian Council for Children's Film and Television had been campaigning for locally made children's films on Australian subjects. In 1961, Island Film Services, a Tasmania company formed by Charles E. Wolnizer, co-produced the film with Visatone Television. It was based on a popular children's novel by Nan Chauncy.
The lead actors were selected out of 500 children.
The film was shot in south-east Tasmania in the summer and autumn of 1961 over seven months with interiors done at Elwick Showground in Hobart and some interiors done in Sydney. The railway footage was on the north coast of Tasmania and at New Town Station. Most of the cast and crew were Tasmanian. As the camera equipment was noisy during filming a lot of the dialogue was overdubbed in post-production. Director Andrew Steane was former head of the Tasmanian Department of Film Production.
Larry Adler recorded harmonica for the music score while touring Australia. The main theme consisted of a short piano piece, Left Bank Waltz, that had already been written by Tasmanian composer Peter Sculthorpe.
Reception
The film was positively reviewed but was not a success at the box office.
References
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