Portraits on lining papers.

"The story of the man who made Australia's greatest motion pictures" -- Front cover.

Filmography: p. 183-189.

Contents:
Elsa in South Australia -- Charles in Australia -- A reluctant star -- To Hollywood with hope -- "In the wake of the Bounty" -- Tahiti -- We find Errol Flynn -- "Heritage" -- Brisbane goes on a movie picnic -- A studio tragedy -- "Uncivilised" -- "Forty Thousand Horsemen" -- War documentaries -- "The Rats of Tobruk" -- "The Sons of Matthew" -- A man-made cyclone -- Prospecting for movie gold -- The Jedda safari -- Dark stars for the bright lights of Sydney -- Re-union with Errol Flynn -- Our last safari -- appendix.

"To take you down to the sea in ships, to go tramping over a thousand hills, in the jungle scrub of the Lamington Plateau and to go out with Charles and Elsa Chauvel on the film front of their lives - that's the object of this book.
In these pages you will share with the writer her dramatic years beside her film producer husband, helping to pioneer a struggling motion picture industry. You will sail with them to lonely Pitcairn Island where they face hazardous seas to bring back, for the first time, film footage of the hiding place of the Bounty mutineers.
You will travel with the adventure-loving pair into the rugged interior to film among the strange, stone age Aborigines of the Northern Territory. You will listen to the thunder of hooves as they film the unforgettable and world-acclaimed charge of Forty Thousand Horsemen, and you will read of the stars discovered and created by Charles Chauvel: Errol Flyn, Mary Maguire, Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch, Michale Pate, Betty Bryan, Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth of Jedda fame." -- Back cover

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