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Mary Kelly (story)
Bogart Rogers (story)
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4 August 1943 (USA) more
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MGM's concept of Australia , 1943 more (5 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Charles Laughton | ... | Jocko Wilson |
 | Binnie Barnes | ... | Aggie Dawlins |
| Richard Carlson | ... | 'Nipper' Wilson |
 | Donna Reed | ... | Mary Wilson |
| Christopher Severn | ... | 'Nipper' as a child |
| Clyde Cook | ... | Ginger Gaffney |
| Stephen McNally | ... | 'Dusty' Rhodes (as Horace McNally) |
| Arthur Shields | ... | Father Polycarp |
| Evelyn Falke | ... | Mary as a child |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | ... | Boots |
| André Charlot | ... | Father Antoine |
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| Wade Boteler | ... | (unconfirmed) |
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103 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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The film is an interesting oddity for this antipodean viewer . Charles Laughton sounds like a Cockney but utters , fairly convincingly , a whole lot of contemporary (1943) Australian slang expressions like "strike me pink" and "bonzer" . Laughton gives the open , hearty , unsophisticated digger a valiant try but he's simply miscast: it was really a role crying out for Chips Rafferty but Chips' career was then only at the diaper stage . Binnie Barnes , Richard Carlson , Stephen McNally and even Donna Reed are more convincing in this milieu but there's an essential miscalculation about the whole venture that makes it unintentionally funny to an Australian audience . The shades of "incest" surrounding Richard Carlson's/Donna Reed's mutual attraction are resolved in a typically hypocritical deus ex machina style that you can see coming from the first reel . The Wells Root screenplay covers the period from World War 1 to World War 2 as Laughton tries to bring up , in Australia , the French orphans he inherited during his wartime stint in France. Robert Z Leonard , better known for his stylish direction of Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy operettas like "Maytime" directs this jumble in an ill-at-ease manner .