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Actors: Gary Bond
Synopsis: Outback was based on Kenneth Cook's novel Wake in Fright. Gary Bond plays a naive young Australian teacher who is tragically unprepared for his new position in the outback. The community he has been sent to is populated almost exclusively by amoral, primitive toughs, more interested in Read More
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Roger C. Carmel, Paul Hubschmid, Chips Rafferty
Synopsis: A team of anthropologists travel to New Guinea in search of the missing link in this routine adventure tale. The expedition is financed by Vancruysen (Paul Hubschmid) and lead by Dr. Sybil Greame (Susan Clark). Also on hand are Douglas Temple (Burt Reynolds) and the boozy Otto Kreps (Roger C. Read More
Actors: Richard Boone, Vera Miles, Joan Blondell, Steve Ihnat, Chips Rafferty
Synopsis: Sam Moran (Richard Boone) is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Read More
Actors: Elvis Presley, Annette Day, John Williams, Yvonne Romain, Chips Rafferty
Synopsis: Elvis Presley plays Guy Lambert, a musician (so far, so good) who is touring Great Britain (something Elvis never managed in real life). Jill Conway (Annette Day), a wealthy heiress, is a big fan of Guy's who has developed a very serious crush on him; her family wants to keep her away from the Read More
Actors: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith
Synopsis: Australian film favorite Chips Rafferty plays a scenery-chewing pirate captain in "Hitting the High Seas." Signing on as sailors, the Monkees discover that their captain is planning to hijack the luxury-liner the Queen Anne (other sources claim that the target is either the Queen Mary or the Queen Read More
Actors: Walter Chiari, Clare Dunne, Chips Rafferty, Alida Chelli, Ed Devereaux
Synopsis: Based on a popular Australian novel, this comedy was produced Down Under in 1966. Nino Culotta Walter Chiari is an Italian journalist who is lured by his brother into coming to Australia to work for his paper there. But when Nino arrives in Sidney, he finds out that there is no paper; his brother Read More
Actors: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Richard Haydn
Synopsis: This colorful remake of the 1935 version again concerns the crew and treatment of the HMS Bounty by a cold hearted sadistic captain. Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) boards the ship in Portsmouth, England, to embark on a mission to bring tropical breadfruit trees to Jamaica. Fletcher Christian Read More
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully
Synopsis: Hijinks and spyjinks lighten this effective comedy by Richard Murphy, based -- very loosely -- on an actual incident in World War II. The place is somewhere in the Pacific and the not-so-good ship USS Echo, captained by the comic Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon), has a very specific assignment. The Read More
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill
Synopsis: Director Fred Zinnemann was riding a crest in the '50s with movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma, and his success continues in this western-style drama set in Australia in the 1920s. Ida Carmody (Deborah Kerr) is married to Paddy (Robert Mitchum), a sheep drover whose nomadic Read More
Actors: Sybil Thorndike, Chips Rafferty, Bruce Archer, Margaret Christensen
Synopsis: In this Australian children's movie, a sequel to Smiley, set in the outback, a local policeman tries to help a rambunctious scamp settle down by promising the lad a new gun if he can stay out of mischief and treat other people with respect. Smiley, the boy, does his very best, but when the locals Read More
Crew: Producer
Actors: Chips Rafferty, Françoise Christophe, Reg Lye, Pierre Cressoy
Synopsis: Australian film favorite Chips Rafferty is both star and producer of Walk Into Hell. Filmed on location in New Guinea, the story concerns the cultural clash between Australian laborers and the local natives. Rafferty plays Steve McAllister, whose job it is to supervise construction of an airfield Read More
Actors: Chips Rafferty, Françoise Christophe, Pierre Cressoy
Actors: Ralph Richardson, John McCallum, Chips Rafferty, Colin Petersen, Jocelyn Hernfield
Synopsis: The first of two films based on characters created by novelist Moore Raymond, this tells of a mischievous Australian boy (Colin Peterson), Smiley, who wants a bicycle, but the funds aren't available. He goes through numerous adventures in his quest for his "dream" vehicle, the most heart-pounding Read More
Crew: Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Chips Rafferty, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Rod Taylor, Lloyd Berrell
Synopsis: Popular Australian film star Chips Rafferty heads the cast of King of Coral Sea. His character name, in fact, is King, Ted King to be exact. Our hero lives and works on Thursday island, center of Australia's pearling industry. The pearl-diving element of the story is forgotten as King Read More
Actors: Richard Burton, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas, James Mason, Torin Thatcher, Chips Rafferty
Synopsis: The Desert Rats was a quickly assembled follow-up to 20th Century-Fox's successful war film The Desert Fox. Richard Burton plays an officer in the British Eighth Army, battling Rommel's forces in defense of Tobruk. Put in charge of an Australian unit, Burton rides his men ruthlessly, with Read More
Actors: Chips Rafferty, Henry Murdoch, Max Osbiston
Synopsis: Australian film favorite Chips Rafferty is virtually the whole show in The Phantom Stockman. Rafferty plays the Sundowner, a "good bad man" who robs from the rich and gives to the poor -- after keeping a slice of the loot for himself, of course. Aligning himself with heroine Kim Marsden Jeanette Read More
Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford, Finlay Currie, Richard Boone, Chips Rafferty
Synopsis: Besotted by alcohol, Australian cattle-station owner Michael McGuire (Finlay Currie) is led to believe that crooked gambler Richard Connor (Peter Lawford) is his long-lost son. Connor and his partner-in-crime Gamble (Richard Boone) go along with the gag, convincing McGuire's daughter Dell (Maureen O'Hara Read More
Actors: Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson, Jean Blue, Charles "Bud" Tingwell
Synopsis: British comic actor Tommy Trinder and Australia's biggest film star Chips Rafferty teamed up for the 1950 film Bitter Springs. The plot is propelled along by Rafferty, who intrudes on the sacred hunting grounds of an aborigine tribe. Though tempers flare, everyone eventually buries the hatchet. Read More
Actors: Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson, Peter Finch, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert, Peter Illing
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Actors: Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum, Derek Bond, Henry Mollison, Chips Rafferty
Synopsis: Set in the early 20th century, The Loves of Joanna Godden stars Googie Withers in the title role. The heir to a prosperous farm in the Romney Marshes, the headstrong Joanna shocks and outrages her tradition-bound neighbors by running the farm herself, refusing to enter into an arranged marriage Read More
Actors: Chips Rafferty, John Fernside, Stan Tolhurst, Pat Penny, Thelma Grigg
Synopsis: The thoroughly entertaining Bush Christmas can be described as an Australian western, albeit with a juvenile slant (indeed, it was produced on behalf of J. Arthur Rank's Children's Cinema Club). Set in the mountains of New South Wales, the story concerns a family of Australian kids who are heading Read More
Actors: Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell, Jean Blue, Helen Grieve
Synopsis: Australian action star Chips Rafferty heads the cast of The Overlanders. The time is World War II, and we know one thing for sure: Rafferty is no "Hud." When ordered to kill 1000 head of cattle rather than risk losing them to the Japanese, Rafferty herds the beef-on-hoof across the Australian Read More
Actors: Grant Taylor, Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch
Synopsis: Peter Finch enjoyed one of his first major screen successes with this wartime drama from Australia. Milo Trent (Chips Rafferty) and Bluey Donkin (Grant Taylor) are two Aussie infantrymen who are fighting in North Africa during World War II when they meet Peter Linton (Peter Finch), a slightly Read More
Actors: Grant Taylor, Betty Bryant, Chips Rafferty, Pat Twohill, Harvey Adams
Synopsis: At the time of its release, 40,000 Horseman was acclaimed as one of the best (if not the best) production to emanate from Australia. Set during WWI, the film is a tribute to the Australian Light Horse regiment, who distinguished themselves while encamped in Palestine on behalf of the British Read More
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