Journey Out of Darkness | |
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Directed by | James Trainor |
Produced by | Frank Brittain |
Written by |
Howard E. Koch James Trainor |
Starring | Konrad Matthaei Ed Devereaux Kamahl |
Music by | Bob Young |
Cinematography | Andrew Fraser |
Edited by | Bronwyn Fackerell James Trainor |
Production
company |
Australian-American Pictures
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Distributed by | British Empire Films |
Release date
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Running time
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92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Journey Out of Darkness is a 1967 Australian film.
In 1901, trooper Peterson is sent to the Australian outback to arrest an aboriginal man responsible for a ritual killing. He is accompanied by blacktracker Jubbal.
On the way back Jubbal is killed, and Peterson and the prisoner form a relationship.
Director James Trainor had worked at the Commonwealth Film Unit and worked in the United States as a documentary director. He wrote the script with his father-in-law, noted Hollywood screenwriter Howard E. Koch. Konrad Matthaei agreed to help finance the movie if he was allowed to play the lead role.
Kamahl a popular singer from Sri Lanka who had emigrated to Australia was cast in a lead role.
Filming began in January 1967 and took place in outback Australian and at the studios of Supreme Sound. Location filming took six weeks.
The film had its world premiere in Canberra at a screening that was attended by the Governor General Lord Casey and the Prime Minister Harold Holt (it was one of the last functions attended by Holt prior to his drowning). However its commercial response was disappointing.