King of the Coral Sea

King of the Coral Sea
Directed byLee Robinson
Written byLee Robinson
Chips Rafferty
Produced byChips Rafferty
Lee Robinson (uncredited)
StarringChips Rafferty
Charles Tingwell
Rod Taylor
CinematographyRoss Wood
Noel Monkman (underwater photography)
Edited byAlex Ezard
Music byWilbur Sampson
Production
company
Distributed byBritish Empire Films
Release date
  • 17 July 1954 (1954-07-17) (Australia)
Running time
85 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget£23,862[1]
Box office£34,000 (England)
£26,000 (Australia)[2]

King of the Coral Sea is a 1954 film starring Chips Rafferty and Charles Tingwell, directed by Lee Robinson and shot on location in Thursday Island. It was one of the most commercially successful Australian films of the 1950s and was Rod Taylor's film debut.[3]

  1. ^ Lee Robinson papers at the National Film and Sound Archive
  2. ^ "Lee Robinson interview with Albert Moran, Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 1 no 1 (1987)". Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  3. ^ Vagg, Stephen (6 April 2020). "Audio Commentary for King of the Coral Sea" (Podcast). Anchor FM.