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South West Pacific is a film directed by Ken G. Hall with Chips Rafferty

South West Pacific (1943)

South West Pacific
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Length 33minutes
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Rating76% 3.804163.804163.804163.804163.80416

South West Pacific is a 1943 propaganda short Australian film directed by Ken G. Hall which focuses on Australia as the main Allied base in the South West Pacific area. Actors depict a cross section of Australians involved in the war effort.

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A series of everyday people talk about their contributions to the war effort. A motor mechanic speaks about how he was working happily in 1939, not thinking much of the crisis in Europe; he subsequently began making aircraft and enlisted in the Volunteer Defence Force.

Actors

Chips Rafferty

(the RAAF mechanic)Peter Finch

(the RAAF pilot)Ron Randell

(US soldier)Ralph Foster Smart

(the RAF pilot)
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