Eureka Stockade (1949)

Directed by

Harry Watt

Genre

drama film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film tells the story of Peter Lalor and the gold miners rebellion at the Eureka Stockade in 1854 Ballarat. The miners rise up against unfair government licensing laws and taxation.

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What happens

Eureka Stockade is a 1949 British film of the story surrounding Irish-Australian rebel and politician Peter Lalor and the gold miners' rebellion of 1854 at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria, in the Australian Western genre. Starring Chips Rafferty, it was produced by Ealing Studios and directed by Harry Watt, following their success with The Overlanders. The movie was the most expensive film made in Australia at that time, and was a critical and commercial disappointment. It has been called "a case of a filmmaker coming off a big fat hit and given carte blanche for his next project, then picking a story that gave him full scope to spend a lot of money on production value, but it was beyond his capabilities to dramatise." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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