Joe Valli
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Department: Acting
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Tall Timbers
Overview: A young forestry graduate, Jim Thornton, is involved in a race between timber companies to fill a major contract. Jim has joined the crew of a genial timber baron, Burbridge, and foils attempts by a rival, Blake, to sabotage their work. J. Alan Kenyon's special effects are the highlights of the film with comic relief provided by Joe Valli as a Scottish timber-train driver amorously pursued by a shrill-voiced maid of the Burbridge's country house.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-03
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40,000 Horsemen
Overview: Charles Chauvel's 1940 cinematic tribute to the mounted troops of the Australian Light Horse regiments is a rousing call to arms, giving life to the heroic tales of mateship during the Great War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-26
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Let George Do It
Overview: The plot concerns a man, Joe Blake, who works as a stage hand in a vaudeville theatre headlined by Mysto the magician. When he finds out that the girl he is in love with, Molly, is getting married, he gets drunk with his friend Happy Morgan and decides to commit suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-18
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Racing Luck
Overview: Bluey and Darkie are first world war veterans who save an ailing racehorse from destruction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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Typhoon Treasure
Overview: Alan Richards is the sole survivor of a pearling lugger which has been shipwrecked on Pakema Reef during a typhoon. He sets out to recover some pearls which went missing in the wreck, crossing through the jungle and fighting headhunters.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
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Heritage
Overview: In colonial Australia, James Morrison is a young teamster who has two friends, Long and Short. He is betrothed to Jane Judd when he visits Sydney and meets fiery Irish girl Biddy O'Shea, who is just off the "wife ship" – a boatload of women from an Irish orphanage bought out to Australia. James is attracted to Biddy and promises to marry her. James returns to Bathurst to break the news to Jane, but his mother dies and makes James promise to marry her daughter. He feels obliged to honour his old commitment to Jane.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-13
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Diggers in Blighty
Overview: The diggers and their officer, who has fallen for a nurse at the hospital, are subtly manipulated by a British intelligence officer to assist in passing false battle plans to the Germans. Given leave in England, they end up billeted at a country house and offered barley water instead of the home-brew they anticipated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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Diggers
Overview: Attending a reunion, two Australian ex-servicemen reminisce about their exploits in France during WW1. These include lying in a field hospital where they feigned deafness to extend their recuperation, stealing jars of rum from the Quartermaster and inventing an elaborate ruse to hide them and finally, the night before returning to the front relaxing in a French café where romance blossoms between the soldier and waitress as told through the song 'Mademoiselle from Armentieres'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-05
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The Rats of Tobruk
Overview: Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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