Eureka Stockade (1949 film)
| Eureka Stockade | |
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British quad poster by John Minton | |
| Directed by | Harry Watt |
| Written by | Harry Watt Walter Greenwood addit. scenes Ralph Smart research Rex Rienits |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon associate Leslie Norman |
| Starring | Chips Rafferty Jane Barrett Jack Lambert Gordon Jackson |
| Cinematography | George Heath |
| Edited by | Leslie Norman |
| Music by | John Greenwood |
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| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £200,000 |
| Box office | £55,855 (UK) |
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Eureka Stockade is a 1949 British film of the story surrounding Irish-Australian rebel and politician Peter Lalor and the gold miners' rebellion of 1854 at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria, in the Australian Western genre.
Starring Chips Rafferty, it was produced by Ealing Studios and directed by Harry Watt, following their success with The Overlanders. The movie was the most expensive film made in Australia at that time, and was a critical and commercial disappointment. It has been called "a case of a filmmaker coming off a big fat hit and given carte blanche for his next project, then picking a story that gave him full scope to spend a lot of money on production value, but it was beyond his capabilities to dramatise."