• Source: Curtin (film)

      • Curtin is a 2007 television film about John Curtin, the Prime Minister of Australia during the Second World War. The film won the Australian Screen Sound Guild Award in 2007 for its sound team.


      Plot


      The film covers the period from just before Curtin becoming Prime Minister in October 1941 until the return of the 6th and 7th Divisions to Australia (Operation Stepsister) at the start of the Pacific war in March 1942. The film concludes with a montage of footage of Curtin's funeral in 1945.


      Cast


      William McInnes as John Curtin
      Noni Hazlehurst as Elsie Curtin
      Asher Keddie as Elsie Jnr
      Ben Esler as John Jnr
      Geoff Morrell as Ben Chifley
      Bille Brown as Robert Menzies
      Paul English as H. V. Evatt
      Frank Gallacher as Jack Beasley
      William Zappa as General Vernon Sturdee
      Shingo Usami as Tatsuo Kawai
      Robert Grubb as Percy Spender
      Tony Rickards as Eddie Ward
      Drew Lindo as Arthur Fadden
      Alethea McGrath as Mrs. Needham
      Dan Wyllie as Don Rodgers
      Brian Meegan as Frederick Shedden
      Roz Hammond as Gladys Joyce
      Nicholas Opolski as Fred McLaughlin
      Hunter Perske as Don Whitington


      Production


      Much of the film was made in Victoria, with the exception of scenes filmed at Old Parliament House, Canberra.


      References




      External links


      Curtin at IMDb
      Curtin at Australian Screen Online

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