Writing

Elsa Chauvel

Born February 10, 1898 · Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Died August 22, 1983 · aged 85

Elsa Chauvel (1898-1983), actress and film maker, was born on 10 February 1898 at Collingwood, Melbourne, and registered as Elsie May, second of three children of Edward Wilcox, a tinsmith from New South Wales, and his Queensland-born wife Ada Marie, née Worrall. When Elsie was a child the family went to South Africa, where Wilcox (under the stage name Silveni/Sylvaney) formed a travelling troupe,…

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Forty Thousand Horsemen

Forty Thousand Horsemen · 1940

Forty Thousand Horsemen

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.

The Rats of Tobruk

The Rats of Tobruk · 1944

The Rats of Tobruk

Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.

Rangle River

Rangle River · 1936

MovieWesternAction

Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan's cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with hostility by her father's foreman, Dick Drake, and her father's neighbour, Don Lawton.

Jedda

MovieAdventureDrama

An aboriginal girl is brought up by a white family that adopts her. As a young woman, she is mysteriously drawn to go "Walkabout" as people of her tribe have for hundreds of years.

Sons of Matthew

Sons of Matthew · 1949

Sons of Matthew

MovieAdventureDrama

The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country.

Uncivilised

Uncivilised · 1936

MovieRomanceAdventure

A white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, is kidnapped by an Afghan slaver, betrothed to a white jungle-man, and menaced by a jealous half-caste rival, a hostile witch-doctor, his crazed-killer son, and opium smugglers!

Greenhide

Greenhide · 1926

Out of boredom, a high society girl visits her father's outback cattle station. After several adventures involving a gang of ruthless cattle duffers, she falls in love with the manager of the station. Only part of the film survives today.

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Forty Thousand Horsemen

Forty Thousand Horsemen · 1940

Forty Thousand Horsemen

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.

Screenplay

The Rats of Tobruk

The Rats of Tobruk · 1944

The Rats of Tobruk

Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.

Writer

Rangle River

Rangle River · 1936

MovieWesternAction

Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan's cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with hostility by her father's foreman, Dick Drake, and her father's neighbour, Don Lawton.

Screenplay

Jedda

MovieAdventureDrama

An aboriginal girl is brought up by a white family that adopts her. As a young woman, she is mysteriously drawn to go "Walkabout" as people of her tribe have for hundreds of years.

Writer

Sons of Matthew

Sons of Matthew · 1949

Sons of Matthew

MovieAdventureDrama

The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country.

Screenplay

Uncivilised

Uncivilised · 1936

MovieRomanceAdventure

A white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, is kidnapped by an Afghan slaver, betrothed to a white jungle-man, and menaced by a jealous half-caste rival, a hostile witch-doctor, his crazed-killer son, and opium smugglers!

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Greenhide

Greenhide · 1926

Out of boredom, a high society girl visits her father's outback cattle station. After several adventures involving a gang of ruthless cattle duffers, she falls in love with the manager of the station. Only part of the film survives today.

Margery Paton