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Eureka Stockade is a British film of genre Drama directed by Harry Watt with Chips Rafferty

Eureka Stockade (1949)

Eureka Stockade
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Length 1h43
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Genres Drama,    Historical
Rating63% 3.1786053.1786053.1786053.1786053.178605

Eureka Stockade is a 1949 British film of the story surrounding Peter Lalor and the gold miners' rebellion of 1854 at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria. It was produced by Ealing Studios and directed by Harry Watt.

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An introductory montage establishes Australia of a hundred years ago – a place of wealth and poverty, transformed by the discovery of gold in 1851. This causes a massive drain in manpower which puts a strain on the country. The Victorian governor appoints an army officer, Reid, commissioner of the goldfields and orders him to tax the miners via licences, and to keep law and order.

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