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Directed by | Jack Lee |
Written by | Alexander Baron W. P. Lipscomb |
Based on | novel by Rolf Boldrewood |
Produced by | Joseph Janni |
Starring | Peter Finch Ronald Lewis |
Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
Edited by | Manuel del Campo |
Music by | Mátyás Seiber |
Production company | The Rank Organisation |
Distributed by | Rank Film Distributors of America |
Release date |
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Running time | 83 minutes (USA) 99 minutes (UK) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Robbery Under Arms is a 1957 British crime film directed by Jack Lee and starring Peter Finch and Ronald Lewis.[1] It is based on the 1888 Australian novel Robbery Under Arms by Thomas Alexander Browne who wrote under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood.[2]
Plot
In 1865 Australia, the two Marston brothers, bold Dick and sensitive Jim, are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, the famous cattle thief Captain Starlight. They help take some cattle their father and Starlight have stolen across the country to Adelaide, where they are sold, with Starlight impersonating an English gentleman claiming to own the rustled herd.
The two brothers take their share of the money and go to Melbourne. On board ship, they meet the Morrison sisters: greedy Kate and nice Jean, who are romanced by Dick and Jim respectively. They read that Starlight has been arrested, and return home, where they and their father narrowly escape arrest.
The brothers are then reunited with Starlight, who has left prison, and join him and some other men in robbing a coach, in which a trooper is shot and killed. Dick and Jim go to the gold fields to make enough money to escape to America. There, they are reunited with Kate, who is married but is still interested in Dick, and Jean, who Jim marries.
Just as the brothers are about to leave to start a new life, Captain Starlight and his gang (including Ben Marston) arrive to rob the local bank. During the robbery, several people are killed by Starlight's gang (although not by Starlight), including a mother protecting child. Jim Marston is captured by locals and is about to be lynched, but is rescued by a trooper who comes to arrest him. Dick rescues Jim from the trooper, but is killed in the attempt.
Jim hides out with Starlight and his father, but misses his wife too much and goes back to see her. Starlight and Ben Marston are killed in a shoot out with police. Jim Marston is arrested.
Cast
- Peter Finch – Captain Starlight
- Ronald Lewis – Dick Marston
- Laurence Naismith – Ben Marston
- Maureen Swanson – Kate Morrison Mullockson
- David McCallum – Jim Marston
- Vincent Ball – George Storefield
- Jill Ireland – Jean Morrison
- Dudy Nimmo – Eileen Marston
- Jean Anderson – Ma Marston
- Ursula Finlay – Grace Storefield
- John Cadell – Warrigal, black rustler[3]
- Larry Taylor – Burke, new rustler
- Russell Napier – Banker Green
- Max Wagner – Sergeant Goring
- Bartlett Mullins – Paddy
- Ewen Solon – Sergeant Arthur
Production
Development
Ealing Studios had planned to make the film after The Overlanders (1946) and Eureka Stockade (1949), and they hired William Lipscomb to do the script.[4] Gregory Peck at one stage was announced as a possible star.[5]
In June 1949 Ealing announced Ralph Smart would direct the film after Bitter Springs at an estimated budget of £250,000 with John McCallum as a possible star.[6]
Ken G. Hall wanted to direct. However plans to make the film were hampered by the closing of Pagewood Studios.[7] Leslie Norman was keen to produce.[8]
Then in the mid-1950s director Jack Lee and Joe Janni had a big hit with the Australian-themed A Town Like Alice (1956), starring Peter Finch and written by Lipscomb. Rank put Lee and Janni under contract for two years and had Finch under contract. The three were reunited for the movie.[9]
Peter Finch had made The Shiralee (1957) in Australia immediately before.
Jack Lee later said:
I made a mistake choosing Robbery Under Arms, a complicated Victorian novel with masses of plots and subplots and too much moralising. However I went ahead and chose the part for Peter Finch, who complained that he was overshadowed by everyone else, and in a way he was right. Janni and I weren't happy with the script and would have liked to put it off for another year. But we were under pressure from Rank and we had to go ahead with an inadequate script. There are one or two nice scenes in it but it's too slow and talky.[9]
Vincent Ball said Finch suggested to Lee that Ball and Finch play the Marsden boys but John Davis "insisted that contract artistes be used for the leads". Ball agreed to play a smaller role if he could go to Australia. He was away "ten or eleven weeks" on salary to say one line in Australia filming the rest of his scenes at Pinewood.[10]
Shooting
Shooting began in January 1957[11] on location in Australia at the Flinders Ranges, South Australia and near Bourke, New South Wales, with two days filming at Pagewood Studios. In April the unit moved to the UK where interiors and exteriors were shot at Pinewood studios in Buckinghamshire.[12][13]
During the making of the film, on-screen couple David McCallum and Jill Ireland fell in love off screen as well, and married once they returned to England.[14]
Reception
The film was popular at the Australian box office, although reviews were poor.[13]
Variety called it:
A well-made, straightforward drama which should click okay in British houses. As is so often the case, its American impact will depend entirely on whether its stars are sufficient magnets to attract patrons outside the British domain. The picture is part of the Rank Organization’s current policy of spotlighting the Commonwealth. Its main problem is whether it does not follow a bit too soon after “The Shiralee,” which also starred Peter Finch and the wide, open Aussie spaces... The acting is less important than the situations. With fist- fights, gunfight and a near-lynching, there is plenty of* meat for good, solid thrills.[15]
Filmink magazine said "there's no real theme or story uniting it all... There's no interesting mystery or enigma to Starlight... All the cool things he does in the book... are cut out except for the bit where he impersonates a gent from England. There's no real relationship between Starlight and the boys... A real dull mess."[16]
See also
References
- ^ "Robbery under Arms (1957)". Archived from the original on 15 January 2009.
- ^ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Aboriginal actor visits London". The Australian Women's Weekly. 19 June 1957. p. 39. Retrieved 27 February 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "FILM WORLD WEATHER IN AUSTRALIA DISAPPOINTS STUDIO". The West Australian. Perth. 3 November 1949. p. 16. Retrieved 14 February 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "News from studios". The Australian Women's Weekly. 24 November 1954. p. 20. Retrieved 27 February 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "John McCallum may play Capt. Starlight". The News. Adelaide. 28 July 1949. p. 19. Retrieved 5 June 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ "Decision a blow to film industry". The Mail. Adelaide. 26 January 1952. p. 2. Retrieved 9 November 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "LONDON". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 31 October 1952. p. 2. Retrieved 11 January 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b Brian MacFarlane, An Autobiography of British Cinema, Methueun 1997 p 357-358
- ^ McFarlane, Brian (1997). An autobiography of British cinema : as told by the filmmakers and actors who made it. p. 56.
- ^ "Rank to Make 23 British Pix in 57". Variety. 2 January 1957. p. 10.
- ^ "BUSHRANGING CLASSIC". The Australian Women's Weekly. 19 June 1957. p. 40. Retrieved 27 February 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 225
- ^ "A REBEL GETS ANGRY". The Australian Women's Weekly. 20 August 1958. p. 73. Retrieved 27 February 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Robbery Under Arms". Variety. 23 October 1957. p. 6.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (24 July 2019). "50 Meat Pie Westerns". Filmink.
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