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Shooting was difficult. Thring suffered from exhaustion, several crew members narrowly escaped death in a tent fire, and cattle mustering scenes were delayed due to communication difficulties. Hatfield also claimed that the stage commitments of the actors made finishing the film hard.
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would be one of several novels he was taking with him to
Hollywood, with a view to having American writers adapt them into screenplay form, suggesting he still intended to use the footage he had shot. However, Thring died soon after he returned to Australia in June and
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Thring stated, "1 shall present a cast of male actors many of whom are already familiar on the
English screen, such as Frank Harvey, Henry Wenman, Claude Flemming and Harold B. Meade. This will undoubtedly be of value in marketing the picture in Great Britain. "
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The production of 'Sheepmates' is a decided departure from our policy of adhering to comedy. It is a truly remarkable drama of out back
Australia, artistically in a class above anything we have yet attempted. Though it may not prove as popular as a
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Melbourne, studio shooting was postponed to January because the St Kilda facilities were not ready. However all the scenes involving actor Henry Wenham had to be filmed because he was returning to London.
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September 1933. After completing some studio scenes, the crew departed to the Queensland and South Australian border for six weeks of shooting around various cattle stations, notably at one owned by Sir
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Another review said "The novel is not a Bush story in the generally accepted sense, and is almost womanless; but it is an arresting picture of
Central Australian outposts that men, at least, will relish."
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The crew initially consisted of Thring, Hatfield and some assistants, plus various camera and sound men; actors did not come until they finished appearing in Thring's stage production of
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Thring later decided to abandon production (and postpone all his other planned movies) due to uncertainty about whether the
Goveernment would introduce a quota for Australian pictures."
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comedy, we are satisfied to produce it merely as an example of our ability to handle this class of subject. No woman appears in the cast, and for this reason it may be described as 'A
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Hatfield himself wrote the script. There were no female characters in the movie, as had been the case with the book. Thring also signed
Hatfield to write a stage version.
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905:Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years
855:. Brisbane. 30 September 1933. p. 12
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190:Tom Holt, Efftee's manager, stated that:
817:"EFFTEE STARTS "SHEEPMATES" ON LOCATION"
675:"Wallace's Third Comedy Starts in July"
597:. Melbourne. 24 August 1933. p. 19
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589:"Talkies that Only Australia Can Make"
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974:"MEN OF THE MEG NO. 1....F W Thring"
543:. Adelaide. 11 June 1935. p. 4
357:"The Red Page Out Among the He-men"
338:Darcy Kelway as Pants, the steward
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954:. 23 November 1933. p. 10
391:The Australian Woman's Mirror.
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907:, Currency Press, 1989 p. 122
332:Harold B Meade as Braithwaite
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535:"Film Industry in Australia"
477:""SHEEPMATES" TO BE FILMED"
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563:"Efftee Buys "Sheepmates""
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485:. 22 June 1933. p. 7
482:The Sydney Morning Herald
282:In 1936 Thring announced
154:based on a 1931 novel by
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387:"Let's Talk About Books"
447:"THURSDAY ABC NATIONAL"
335:Marshall Crosby as Ryan
323:Guy Hastings as Lindsay
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617:"EFFTEE'S PROGRAMME"
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