Dad and Dave Come to Town

Dad and Dave Come to Town
Directed byKen G. Hall
Written byBert Bailey
Frank Harvey
Based onstory by Ken G. Hall
characters created by Steele Rudd
Produced byKen G. Hall
StarringBert Bailey
Fred MacDonald
Shirley Ann Richards
CinematographyGeorge Heath
Edited byWilliam Shepherd
Music byHamilton Webber
Production
company
Distributed byBritish Empire Films (Aust)
Release dates
  • 30 September 1938 (1938-09-30) (Aust)
  • 1939 (1939) (UK)
  • 1943 (1943) (USA)
Running time
97 minutes (Aust)
78 mins (UK)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget£12,000[1] or £23,000[2][3]
Box office£40,000 (Australia)[1]
£35,000 (UK)[4]

Dad and Dave Come to Town is a 1938 Australian comedy film directed by Ken G. Hall, the third in the 'Dad and Dave' comedy series starring Bert Bailey. It was the feature film debut of Peter Finch and is one of the best known Australian films of the 1930s.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Bert Bailey Started in Melodrama And Made A Fortune From A Beard". The Sunday Herald. Sydney. 5 April 1953. p. 12. Retrieved 15 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 183.
  3. ^ Pike, Andrew Franklin. "The History of an Australian Film Production Company: Cinesound, 1932-70" (PDF). Australian National University. p. 245.
  4. ^ "THE RESEARCH BUREAU HOLDS AN AUTOPSY". Sunday Mail. Brisbane. 17 February 1952. p. 11. Retrieved 28 April 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
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