| 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 |
| Editing by | Stanley Moore |
| Studio | Southern International Productions |
| Distributed by | Universal |
| Release date(s) | August 1960 |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ₤50,000[1] |
Dust in the Sun is a 1958 Australian mystery film adapted from a novel by Jon Cleary[2] and produced by the team of Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty.
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Justin Bayard (Ken Wayne), a Northern Territory policeman, is escorting an aboriginal warrior, Emu Foot (Robert Tudawali), 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 (Jill Adams), the bored wife of the station owner (James Forest) sets Emu Foot free and is later murdered. Bayard romances stockman's daughter Chris (Maureen Lanagan). Emu Foot is killed by aboriginals and Bayard exposes Julie's murderer.
Shooting took place in the old Cinesound Studio at Bondi and on location near Alice Springs in October and November 1956.[3]
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.[4] Lee Robinson later claimed this was a mistake on their part and contributed to the film's lack of commercial success. He also thought the script and supporting cast was weak.[5]
Jill Adams was imported from England to play the female lead. Maureen Lanagan was a Sydney model making her first film - Robinson also used models turned actors in The Phantom Stockman and King of the Coral Sea.
The film premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in 1958 but was not released in Australia and England until 1960. It did not perform well at the box office.[6]
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