Double Trouble (1951 film)

Double Trouble is a docu-drama directed by Lee Robinson about two Australian men intolerant of foreign migrants who find themselves transported to a foreign country.[1]

Double Trouble
Directed byLee Robinson
Written byRoland Loewe
StarringFrank Waters
CinematographyFrank Bagnall
Edited byInman Hunter
Production
company
Release date
1951
Running time
10 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Unlike most movies from the Australian National Film Board it used professional actors, and gave Lee Robinson invaluable experience directing them prior to his first feature, The Phantom Stockman (1953).[2]

The film has since come to be regarded as historically significant because of its depiction of attitudes towards Australian immigration at the time.[3]

Robinson and editor Inman Hunter later wrote a story for a drama film together which became The Siege of Pinchgut (1959).[4]

Cast
  • Frank Waters
  • Ken McCarron
  • Maurice Travers
  • Charles Farrell

References
  1. "Honour For Australia's Little Films". The Sunday Herald. Sydney. 9 August 1953. p. 14. Retrieved 30 August 2015 – via National library of Australia.
  2. "Lee Robinson interview with Albert Moran, Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 1 no 1 (1987)". Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  3. Paul Byrnes, 'Capturing a nation's reinvention', The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 December 2004 accessed 17 December 2011
  4. Robinson, Lee (15 August 1976). "Lee Robinson" (Oral history). Interviewed by Graham Shirley. National Film and Sound Archive.


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