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King of the Coral Sea (1954)

King of the Coral Sea poster
Directed by
Lee Robinson
Genre
adventure film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A pearl diver on Thursday Island gets caught up in a smuggling plot. He teams up with local authorities to stop the criminals.

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What happens

King of the Coral Sea is a 1954 Australian film directed by Lee Robinson and starring Chips Rafferty and Charles Tingwell. It was written by Robinson and Rafferty, and was shot on location on Thursday Island. It was one of the most commercially successful Australian films of the 1950s and was Rod Taylor's film debut. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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