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Charles Chauvel is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Australien born on 7 october 1897 at Warwick (Australie)
Charles Edward Chauvel OBE (7 October 1897 – 11 November 1959) was an Australian filmmaker and nephew of Australian army General Sir Harry Chauvel. He is noted for making the films Forty Thousand Horsemen in 1940 and Jedda in 1955.
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Charles Chauvel
Birth name Charles Edward Chauvel
Nationality Australie
Birth 7 october 1897 at Warwick (Australie)
Death 11 november 1959 (at 62 years) at Sydney (Australie)
Nationality Australie
Birth 7 october 1897 at Warwick (Australie)
Death 11 november 1959 (at 62 years) at Sydney (Australie)
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In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)
, 1h6Directed by Charles Chauvel
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Documentary, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Errol Flynn, Charles Chauvel, Elsa Chauvel
Roles Himself
Rating47%
Chauvel's film uses introductory enacted scenes showing the mutiny, followed by documentary footage, anthropological style, of the mutineers' descendants on Pitcairn Island. Chauvel also used footage of Polynesian women dancers; and film of an underwater shipwreck, filmed with a glass bottomed boat, which he believed was the Bounty but was probably not. This was Chauvel's first 'talkie' and he had clearly at this stage not yet learned to direct actors: the dialogue is very stiff and amateurish. The use of long sections of documentary footage with a voice over, combined with acted scenes, is similar to the hybrid silent and talking pictures that were produced during the transition to sound. It also represents the combination of interests of the director, and he returned to documentary toward the end of his career with the BBC television series Walkabout. Despite the poorly written dialogue, the documentary sections retain their excellence. A return to enactments at the end of the film, with one scripted modern scene in which a child suffers because of the lack of regular ship visits which could have taken the child to hospital, probably sought to make the film a useful voice for the Pitcairn Island community, who had been generous with their participation.
The Moth of Moonbi (1926)
Directed by Charles Chauvel
Genres Drama
Actors Charles Chauvel
Roles Aboriginal Stockman
Rating56%
Dell Ferris is a tomboy from the country town of Moonbi who is loved by English head stockman Tom. She goes to the city where sophisticated Margery Daw helps Dell spend her money in high society. Dell returns to Moonbi poorer but wiser and marries Tom.
Robbery Under Arms (1920)
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Roy Redgrave, Charles Chauvel
Rating53%
Two brothers, Dick and Jim Marsden, become involved with the bushranger, Captain Starlight. They romance two girls, work on the goldfields, and are captured by the police after Starlight is shot dead.
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Jedda (1955)
, 1h41Directed by Charles Chauvel
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Robert Tudawali
Rating60%
Jedda is an Aboriginal girl born on a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. After her mother dies giving birth to her, the child is brought to Sarah McMann, the wife of the station boss. Sarah has recently lost her own newborn to illness. She at first intends to give the baby to one of the Aboriginal women who work on the station, but then raises Jedda as her own, teaching her European ways and separating her from other Aborigines.
Sons of Matthew (1949)
, 1h47Directed by Charles Chauvel
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Michael Pate, John Ewart, Dorothy Alison
Rating67%
Irishman Matthew O'Riordan and his English wife Jane raise a family of five sons and two daughters on their farm in the valley of Cullenbenbong in northern New South Wales. They battle drought, flood and fire. The wife of neighbour Angus McAllister dies and they help raise their daughter Cathy.
The Rats of Tobruk (1944)
, 1h8Directed by Charles Chauvel
Genres War, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Peter Finch, Chips Rafferty
Rating54%
Three friends are droving cattle in Australia in 1939: the restless Bluey Donkin, easy-going Milo Trent and English Peter Linton, who is in the country on a working holiday. Squatter's daughter Kate Carmody is in love with Bluey but he refuses to be tied down to any one woman. War breaks out and the three men enlist in the Australian army and are assigned to the 9th Division. They ship out to Africa.
Russia Aflame (1943)
, 12minutesDirected by Charles Chauvel
The film opens before the Nazi attack on Russia in June 1941, and shows peasants at work in fields along the Volga, shepherds looking after their sheep on the steppes, and crop cultivation in the Ukraine. It then deals with the consequences of the invasion, including the role of women in the war effort and Russian factory production.
While There is Still Time (1943)
, 12minutesDirected by Charles Chauvel
Actors Peter Finch, Chips Rafferty, Dorothy Alison
A young woman, Gracie, is bored with her factory work and dissatisfied with war life. Her soldier boyfriend, Jim, is blinded while fighting overseas, and writes her a letter which inspires Gracie and her workmates to make sacrifices and win the war.
Power to Win (1942)
, 12minutesDirected by Charles Chauvel
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
40,000 Horsemen (1940)
, 1h40Directed by Charles Chauvel
Genres Drama, War
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Chips Rafferty, Michael Pate
Rating60%
In 1916 Jerusalem, German troops led by Von Schiller arrest French wine seller Paul Rouget for spying and hang him. His daughter Juliet goes into hiding dressed as a boy and starts spying on the Germans.
Screen Test (1937)
Directed by Charles Chauvel
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Cesar Romero
Uncivilised (1936)
, 1h22Directed by Charles Chauvel
Genres Adventure, Romance
Actors Dennis Hoey
Rating50%
Successful author Beatrice Lynn is commissioned by her publisher to go to the Outback and locate the legendary white man, Mala, who heads an aboriginal tribe. Travelling by camel, she is abducted by an Afghan, Akbar Jhan and his group of aboriginals who provide pituri, a narcotic to aboriginals. Previously not allowed into Mala's tribal land to sell his wares, Akbar Jhan has schemed to use Beatrice, a white woman to arouse Mala's interest.
Heritage (1935)
, 1h34Directed by Charles Chauvel
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Mary Maguire, John McCallum
Rating53%
In colonial Australia, James Morrison is a young teamster who has two friends, Long and Short. He is betrothed to Jane Judd when he visits Sydney and meets fiery Irish girl Biddy O'Shea, who is just off the "wife ship" – a boatload of women from an Irish orphanage bought out to Australia. James is attracted to Biddy and promises to marry her. James returns to Bathurst to break the news to Jane, but his mother dies and makes James promise to marry her daughter. He feels obliged to honour his old commitment to Jane.