The Pyjama Girl Murder Case

Last updated

The Pyjama Girl Murder Case
Directed by Rupert Kathner
Production
company
Enterprise Films
Release dates
  • August 1939 (1939-08)
  • 1944 (1944)(re-release)
Running time
10 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

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.

Related Research Articles

Ian Dalrymple was a British screenwriter, film director, film editor and film producer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Luigi Zampa</span> Italian film director (1905–1991)

Luigi Zampa was an Italian film director.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Killing of Linda Agostini</span> English Australian homicide victim

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.

Hugh Geddes Atkinson was an Australian novelist, journalist, screenwriter and documentary film maker.

<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Die Deutsche Wochenschau</i></span> Newsreel series released in Nazi Germany

Die Deutsche Wochenschau is the title of the unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany from June 1940 until the end of World War II, with the final edition issued on 22 March 1945. The co-ordinated newsreel production was set up as a vital instrument for the mass distribution of Nazi propaganda at war. Today the preserved Wochenschau short films make up a significant part of the audiovisual records of the Nazi era.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frenaros</span> Place in Famagusta District, Cyprus

Frenaros is a village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located 4 miles west of Paralimni and 9 miles northwest of Ayia Napa. In 2011, it had a population of 4,298.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harry Moyes</span> Australian rules footballer

Harold Milne Moyes was an Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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.

<i>For Freedom</i> (1940 film) 1940 British film

For Freedom is a 1940 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and Castleton Knight. It was made largely for propaganda purposes during the Second World War. It features Will Fyffe, Guy Middleton, and Terry-Thomas. Through its blending of fiction and documentary it was similar to The Lion Has Wings produced by Alexander Korda's London Films.

Flavio Mogherini was an Italian production designer, art director and film director. His career spanned from 1947 to 1994.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Tannen</span> American actor (1915–1980)

Charles David Tannen was an American actor and screenwriter.

Lawrence J. Darmour (1895–1942) was an American film producer, operator of Larry Darmour Productions from 1927, and a significant figure in Hollywood's low-budget production community.

Jean Bachelet was a French cinematographer who started as a newsreel cameraman and whose numerous theatrical films include The Rules of the Game (1939) for Jean Renoir.

<i>The Pyjama Girl Case</i> 1978 Italian film

La ragazza dal pigiama giallo is a 1978 Italian giallo film directed by Flavio Mogherini, distributed internationally as The Pyjama Girl Case.

<i>Girls in Prison</i> (1994 film) 1994 American television film

Girls in Prison is a 1994 American television film directed by John McNaughton. Girls in Prison originally aired on the cable television network Showtime in 1994 as part of the series Rebel Highway.

Bismark Convoy Smashed!, also known as Battle of the Bismark Sea, is a Second World War 1943 Australian documentary newsreel film about the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on 2–3 March, an engagement which resulted in the claimed destruction of 22 Japanese ships, their crews and 15,000 soldiers. Actual Japanese losses were rather less, but still devastating.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Monahan</span> Australian barrister and judge (1898–1975)

Sir Robert Vincent Monahan QC was an Australian lawyer and judge who served on the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1955 to 1970.

<i>Sepioloidea lineolata</i> Species of cuttlefish

Sepioloidea lineolata or more commonly known as the striped pyjama squid or the striped dumpling squid is a type of bottletail squid that inhabits the Indo-Pacific Oceans of Australia. The striped pyjama squid lives on the seafloor, often hiding in the sand. When fully mature, a striped pyjama squid will only be about 7 to 8 centimetres in length. Baby striped pyjama squid can be smaller than 10 millimetres (0.39 in).

Sir Charles John Lowe KCMG was an Australian judge. He served on the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1927 to 1964, the longest serving judge in the court's history. He presided over several major federal and state government inquiries.

Leslie Lesser Landau was a British director, film producer, screenwriter, screenplay editor and playwright. He also served as the newsreel editor of British Movietone News from 1929 to 1935 at a time the power of newsreel from a political perspective was first used. He was honoured for landmark film journalism.

References

  1. "PYJAMA GIRL MURDER FILM". The Northern Standard . Darwin, NT: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1939. p. 9. Retrieved 19 August 2012.