Captain Thunderbolt (film)

Captain Thunderbolt
Poster
Directed byCecil Holmes
Written byCreswick Jenkinson
Produced byJohn Wiltshire
StarringGrant Taylor
Charles Tingwell
CinematographyRoss Wood
Edited byMargaret Cardin
Music bySydney John Kay
Production
company
Associated TV
Distributed byRay Films
Release dates
  • 8 September 1955 (1955-09-08) (Sydney)
  • June 1956 (1956-06) (England)
Running time
69 minutes (53 minutes TV version)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget£15,000[1][2][3]
Box office£30,000[1]

Captain Thunderbolt is a 1953 Australian action film from director Cecil Holmes about the bushranger Captain Thunderbolt. It was one of the few all-Australian films of the 1950s.[4]

  1. ^ a b Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 216.
  2. ^ "PERSONAL ITEMS", 105 volumes : illustrations (chiefly coloured), portraits (chiefly coloured) ; 30-40 cm., The Bulletin, John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., 73 (3724), Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 27 June 1951 [1880], ISSN 0007-4039, nla.obj-525477717, retrieved 19 August 2023 – via Trove
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference max was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "What Happens To Our Films?". The Sunday Herald. Sydney. 3 February 1952. p. 12. Retrieved 25 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.