Dust in the Sun

Dust in the Sun
Directed byLee Robinson
Written byLee Robinson
Joy Cavill
W. P. Lipscomb
Based onJustin Bayard by Jon Cleary
Produced byChips Rafferty
StarringJill Adams
Ken Wayne
Robert Tudawali
CinematographyCarl Kayser
Edited byStanley Moore
Music byWilbur Sampson
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal (Australia)
Release dates
  • 3 October 1958 (1958-10-03) (premiere)
  • 12 August 1960 (1960-08-12) (Australia)
Running time
86 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget£50,000[1]

Dust in the Sun is a 1958 Eastmancolor Australian mystery film adapted from the 1955 novel Justin Bayard by Jon Cleary[2] and produced by the team of Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty. The film stars British actress Jill Adams, Ken Wayne and an Indigenous Australian actor Robert Tudawali as Emu Foot.

  1. ^ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press, 1989 p203
  2. ^ "A Serial You Mut Not Miss!." The Argus (Melbourne) 5 Nov 1955: 7 accessed 16 December 2011