my-server
← Wiki

Eleventh Hour (1942 documentary film)

Eleventh Hour is a 1942 Australian short documentary film from director Ken G. Hall for the Department of Information.

It was the third in a series of movies to promote Austerity War Loans, following Another Threshold.

Plot

A woman wonders if the sacrifices of war are worth it. Her first World War veteran husband assures her that it is.

Cast

  • Muriel Steinbeck as the wife
  • John Nugent Hayard as the husband
  • Margaret Sinclair as the daughter in law

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that: <blockquote>Ken Hall... has used the Anzac Day memorial services with effect... [the film] should rally the dilatory to the war bond booths. Muriel Steinbeck Is splendid... The mournful retrospection of... [the wife]... could with advantage be less insistent in the script, and more heartening implication and less exhortation be given to the propaganda angle of the narrative.</blockquote>Smith's Weekly said "Nothing is over-dramatised, and the mother...in the opening scenes particularly, is genuinely moving." The Age called it "impressive".

References

External links