The Pyjama Girl Murder Case | |
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Directed by | Rupert Kathner |
Production company | Enterprise Films |
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Running time | 10 mins |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
The Pyjama Girl Murder Case is a dramatised 1939 newsreel from director Rupert Kathner based on the murder of Linda Agostini. [1]
It was an installment of the Australia Today newsreel series.
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On 1 September 1934, the badly burned body of a woman with a bullet through the neck was found in a culvert running under Howlong Road in Albury, New South Wales, Australia. The body of the woman became posthumously known as Pyjama Girl.
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Rupert Kathner (1904–1954) was an Australian film director best known for newsreels and low-budget films. He worked with Alma Brooks, an ex-barmaid, who co-produced, operated the camera, edited, co-scripted and acted in their films. Kathner and Brooks were also "shady con artists and fugitives from the law", sometimes described as the "Bonnie and Clyde" of the Australian film industry.
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