Eleventh Hour (1942 documentary film)
| Eleventh Hour | |
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| Directed by | Ken G. Hall |
| Produced by | Ken G. Hall |
| Starring | Muriel Steinbeck John Nugent Hayward Margaret Sinclair |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia |
Release date |
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Running time | 11 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Eleventh Hour is a 1942 Australian short documentary film from director Ken G. Hall for the Department of Information.[1]
It was the third in a series of movies to promote Austerity War Loans, following Another Threshold.[2]
Plot
A woman wonders if the sacrifices of war are worth it. Her first World War veteran husband assures her that it is.
Cast
- Muriel Steinbeck as the wife
- John Nugent Hayard as the husband
- Margaret Sinclair as the daughter in law
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that:
Ken Hall... has used the Anzac Day memorial services with effect... [the film] should rally the dilatory to the war bond booths. Muriel Steinbeck Is splendid... The mournful retrospection of... [the wife]... could with advantage be less insistent in the script, and more heartening implication and less exhortation be given to the propaganda angle of the narrative.[3]
Smith's Weekly said "Nothing is over-dramatised, and the mother...in the opening scenes particularly, is genuinely moving." The Age called it "impressive".[4]
References
- ^ Pike, Andrew Franklin. "The History of an Australian Film Production Company: Cinesound, 1932-70" (PDF). Australian National University. p. 241.
- ^ ""Eleventh Hour"". The Mirror. Perth: National Library of Australia. 7 November 1942. p. 9. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "NEW FILMS". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 9 November 1942. p. 7. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ "New Film". The Age. Victoria, Australia. 6 November 1942. p. 3. Retrieved 18 April 2020 – via Trove.