Dust in the Sun
| Dust in the Sun | |
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| Directed by | Lee Robinson |
| Produced by | Chips Rafferty |
| Written by |
Lee Robinson Joy Cavill W. P. Lipscomb |
| Based on | Justin Bayard by Jon Cleary |
| Starring |
Jill Adams Ken Wayne Robert Tudawali |
| Music by | Wilbur Sampson |
| Cinematography | Carl Kayser |
| Edited by | Stanley Moore |
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| Distributed by | Universal (Australia) |
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Release date
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October 1958 (premiere) August 1960 (Australia) 1960 (England) |
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Running time
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86 mins |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ₤50,000 |
Dust in the Sun is a 1958 Australian mystery film adapted from the novel Justin Bayard by Jon Cleary and produced by the team of Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty. The film stars British actress Jill Adams and an indigenous-Australian actor Robert Tudawali as Emu Foot.
Justin Bayard, a Northern Territory policeman, is escorting an aboriginal warrior, Emu Foot, to Alice Springs to be tried for a tribal killing. They are attacked by some Aborigines and forced to take refuge at an isolated cattle station. Julie, the bored wife of the station owner Tad Kirkbridge, sets Emu Foot free and is later murdered. Bayard romances stockman's daughter Chris. Emu Foot is killed by aboriginals and Bayard exposes Julie's murderer.
In May 1956 Robinson and Rafferty bought the film studios at Bondi which were once owned by Cinesound Productions. It was meant to be used as a basis for their television company, Australian Television Enterprises, but it was used for this film.
They optioned Jon Cleary's novel Justin Bayard. Robinson later recalled:
On that film we were aiming to do very well in the English market, because we had always done well there. For instance King of the Coral Sea earned much more than its production cost out of England whilst it earned its production cost in Australia. Walk into Paradise had also gone terribly well in England. England was a very strong market for us at that time. In fact it was probably a better market for us than the United States.
This was the fourth feature from Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty but the first one in which Rafferty did not act, although he was originally meant to, with Charles Tingwell to play the second lead, a station manager.
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