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Eureka Stockade commences screening at the Woodville Star on Aug 26, 1949 - This is a British film of the story surrounding Irish-Australian rebel and politician Peter Lalor and the gold miners' rebellion of 1854 at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria, in the Australian Western genre.

Starring Chips Rafferty, it was produced by Ealing Studios and directed by Harry Watt, following their success with The Overlanders.

The movie was the most expensive film made in Australia at that time, and was a critical and commercial disappointment. It has been called “a case of a filmmaker coming off a big fat hit and given carte blanche for his next project, then picking a story that gave him full scope to spend a lot of money on production value, but it was beyond his capabilities to dramatise.

Photo - Courtesy of Cinema and Theatre Historical Society Australia - CATHS

Contributed by Greg Lynch -