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List of Australian films of the 1950s
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1950s
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Notes
1950
Bitter Springs
Ralph Smart
Tommy Trinder
,
Chips Rafferty
,
Gordon Jackson
,
Jean Blue
,
Michael Pate
,
Bud Tingwell
,
Nonnie Piper
,
Nicky Yardley
IMDb
The Kangaroo Kid
1951
The Glenrowan Affair
1952
Mike and Stefani
R. Maslyn Williams
Documentary
NFSA
Night Club
1953
Captain Thunderbolt
King of the Coral Sea
The Phantom Stockman
Lee Robinson
Chips Rafferty
,
Victoria Shaw
,
Guy Doleman
Wherever She Goes
Michael Gordon
Eileen Joyce
,
Suzanne Parrett
,
Muriel Steinbeck
,
Nigel Lovell
,
John Wiltshire
,
George Wallace
,
Tim Drysdale
,
Syd Chambers
,
Rex Dawe
,
Sefton Daly
,
Jacqueline Cat
Drama
IMDb
1954
The Back of Beyond
John Heyer
Tom Kruse
Documentary
IMDb
Long John Silver
Byron Haskin
Robert Newton
,
Rod Taylor
Adventure
IMDb
1955
Jedda
Charles Chauvel
Ngarla Kunoth
,
Robert Tudawali
,
Betty Suttor
,
Paul Reynall
,
George Simpson-Lyttle
,
Tas Fitzer
,
Wason Byers
,
Willie Farrar
,
Margaret Dingle
,
Nosepeg
1956
Olympic Games 1956
Walk into Paradise
Marcello Pagliero
,
Lee Robinson
Chips Rafferty
,
Francoise Christophe
,
Reg Lye
,
Pierre Cressoy
,
Sergeant Major Somu
,
District Officer Fred Kaad
,
Captain Richard Davis
Adventure
Entered into the
1956 Cannes Film Festival
Smiley
IMDb
1957
Robbery Under Arms
IMDb
Three in One
1958
Conquest of the Rivers
AFI winner for Best Film
Dust in the Sun
Hard to Windward
AFI winner for Best Film
Smiley Gets a Gun
The Stowaway
1959
L' Ambitieuse (The Restless and the Damned)
Yves Allégret
Edmond O'Brien
,
Richard Basehart
,
Andrea Parisy
,
Nicole Berger
,
Nigel Lovell
,
Reg Lye
,
Jean Marchat
,
Denise Vernac
Drama
IMDb
Edge of the Deep
AFI winner for Best Film
The Power Makers
AFI winner for Best Film
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Leslie Norman
Ernest Borgnine
,
Anne Baxter
Comedy
IMDb
See also
1950 in Australia
1951 in Australia
1952 in Australia
1953 in Australia
1954 in Australia
1955 in Australia
1956 in Australia
1957 in Australia
1958 in Australia
1959 in Australia
1959 in Australian television
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