Captain Fury

Captain Fury
Film poster
Directed byHal Roach
Written byGrover Jones
Jack Jevne
William C. deMille
Produced byHal Roach
StarringBrian Aherne
Victor McLaglen
CinematographyNorbert Brodine
Edited byWilliam H. Ziegler
Music byMarvin Hatley
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • May 26, 1939 (1939-05-26)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget£250,000[1]
Box office$537,858[2]

Captain Fury is a 1939 American Western film directed by Hal Roach. It is set in colonial Australia as one of Hollywood's few attempts to depict Australian history.[3]

  1. ^ "Hollywood makes.... Film of Australia." The Australian Women's Weekly 15 Jul 1939: 32 Supplement: The Movie World accessed. December 28, 2011
  2. ^ Ward, Richard Lewis (2005). A history of the Hal Roach Studios. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-8093-2637-2. - figures are producer's share from US/Canada
  3. ^ Hamilton, Emma (2017). "Such Is Western: An Overview of the Australian Western via Ned Kelly Films". Contemporary Transnational Westerns: Themes and Variations. 38 (38). Studia Filmoznawcze ("Film Studies"): 35. doi:10.19195/0860-116X.38.3. ISSN 0860-116X.