Uncivilised (film)

Uncivilised
Directed byCharles Chauvel
Written byE. V. Timms
Charles Chauvel[1]
Produced byCharles Chauvel
StarringDennis Hoey
Margot Rhys
CinematographyTasman Higgins
Edited byFrank Coffey
Mona Donaldson
Music byLindley Evans
Production
company
Expeditionary Films
Distributed byUniversal Pictures (Australia)
Box Office Attractions (US)
Umbrella Entertainment
Release date
  • September 1936 (1936-09) (Australia)
Running time
82 minutes (Aust)
77 minutes (US)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget£20,000[2]

Uncivilised is a 1936 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel. It was an attempt by Chauvel to make a more obviously commercial film, and was clearly influenced by Tarzan.[2][3]

The film is known as Uncivilized and Pituri in the United States.

Plot summary

Successful author Beatrice Lynn is commissioned by her publisher to go to the Outback and locate the "legendary" white man, Mara, who heads an Aboriginal Australian tribe. Travelling by camel, she is abducted by an Afghan cameleer, Akbar Jhan. He and his group of Aboriginal people provide pituri, a narcotic, to other Aboriginal people. Previously not allowed into Mara's tribal land to sell his wares, Akbar Jhan has schemed to use Beatrice, a white woman, to arouse Mara's interest.

Meanwhile, the Australian Mounted Police has its hands full with a missing inspector, an international drug ring, and a tribe of Aboriginal warriors led by Moopil who have killed two prospectors, as well as searching for the missing Beatrice.

Mara buys Beatrice from Jhan, and the two fall in love.

Cast

Development

After making Heritage, Expeditionary Films were in an expansive mood and increased their capital from £15,000 to £50,000. They announced they had signed a contract with E. V. Timms to provide a story, and also planned to make a movie about contemporary city life. The second project was never made but the Timms story was.[5]

In July 1935 Chauvel announced the film would be called Uncivilised and concern a white man who grows up among Aboriginal people in North Queensland.[6] Chauvel said he was inspired by real life white men who lived among Aboriginals including James Murrel, James Bracefield, William Buckley, John Petrie, Joseph Forbes and John Edwards. [7]

By October he had cast Margot Rhys, who had been in Heritage, and Dennis Hoey, who was imported from England. Hoey arrived in Australia on 20 October.[8]

Production

Chauvel commenced location filming on Palm Island that month.[9] Location shooting went for six weeks, with the use of Aboriginal actors strictly controlled by the Aboriginal Control Board.[10][11][12][13]

Interior scenes were shot at the newly constructed National Studios at Pagewood – it was the first production shot there. Aboriginal actors were brought down from Queensland to act in the studio scenes.[14] Chauvel defended his treatment of these Aboriginal extras during filming.[15]

During filming, an animal trainer was attacked by a python, but he recovered and went back to work.[16][17][18]

After ten weeks in the studio, Chauvel then shot additional scenes at the Burragorang Valley[19] and the Royal National Park.[20][21]

The final sequences were filmed out near Broken Hill.[22]

It was the last film for scenic artist Jack Coleman.[23]

Release

Chauvel showed preview scenes to the press in May.[24]

Uncivilised had to have two scenes excised by the censor for export. One scene was Margot Rhys swimming in the nude, another was a strangulation of an aborigine.[25][26] No cuts were required in Victoria.[27]

Critical

Reviews were mixed.[28] The Bulletin said Chauvel put his cast "into well-chosen, convincing scenic settings, kept the action moving briskly, and utilised, perhaps more effectively than authentically, some of the most picturesque features of life in Australia’s Wild Nor’-west."[29]

Everyone's said it was "further demonstration of encouraging progress in Australian talkie making: soundly based in melodrama and spiced with novel romantic appeal, the injection of sequences detailing aboriginal tribal dances and introducing perfectly filmed scenic backgrounds are factors which will definitely find a world interest in the picture."[30]

Variety magazine stated:

At last there issues from an Australian studio a picture fit to grace the screens of the world. Very novelty of the setting, should give Uncivilised a spot on the American screen. Not, however, as an ace attraction but on duals because, outside Australia, the marquee names mean nothing... Chauvel has turned in the picture of his career, and one that should . place Australia on the map.[31]

US release

The film was released in the US and performed well at the box office.[32] However Expeditionary Films had sold the rights and benefited little from this. The company soon wound up and made no more movies.[2]

The film was re-released in Los Angeles in March 1942 as Pituri and played on a double bill with Black Dragons.[33] The Los Angeles Times called it "a fast moving story whose elements maybe a little shopworn but which appeared new against the unusual background... picture proves that when the Australians get into their real stride as picture makers they will be second to none: for acting, production and photography are second to none."[34] This version screened in New York the following year.[35]

The film is now in the public domain.

Soundtrack

Dennis Hoey's Mala character sings several songs in the manner of Paul Robeson.

Novel

A novelisation of the script was published in 1936. Authorship was attributed solely to Charles Chauvel but it is believed the book was written by Timms.[36] Early reports announced the novel was written by Timms.[37]

Notes

  1. ^ Copyright registration at National Archives of Australia
  2. ^ a b c Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 173.
  3. ^ Vagg, Stephen (25 May 2020). "The A to Z of Non-White Aussie Movies and TV in White Australia". Filmink.
  4. ^ Howie-Willis, Ian (2000). "Onus, William Townsend (Bill) (1906 - 1968)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 16 August 2021. This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, (Melbourne University Press), 2000
  5. ^ "Australian films". The Sydney Morning Herald. 31 January 1935. p. 13. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Australian films". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 July 1935. p. 5. Retrieved 12 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "White Men Who Have – – Gone Native", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 11 December 1935, nla.obj-561876822, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  8. ^ "Chauvel Signs British Star for "Uncivilised." Film Plans.", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 9 October 1935, nla.obj-561428466, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  9. ^ "Australian film ". The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 October 1935. p. 8. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ "Australian film". The Morning Bulletin. Rockhampton, Qld. 15 October 1935. p. 12. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ "Native actors". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 November 1935. p. 17. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ^ "Chauvel Records The Age-Old Rites of A Vanishing Race of .... A Vanishing Race", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 6 November 1935, nla.obj-576654200, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  13. ^ "Scenic Charm of the North Caught By Charles Chauvel's Cameras", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 4 December 1935, nla.obj-561863813, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  14. ^ "Aborigines ". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 November 1935. p. 11. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ^ "Chauvel on Aboriginal Extras", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 20 November 1935, nla.obj-561858626, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  16. ^ "BITTEN BY PYTHON". The Sydney Morning Herald. 10 January 1936. p. 12. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  17. ^ "Drama in a Northern Paradise For 'Uncivilised'", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 27 November 1935, nla.obj-561868210, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  18. ^ "Chauvel's Cameras Catch the Spirit of the Black Man.", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 20 November 1935, nla.obj-561858422, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  19. ^ "Australian films". The Sydney Morning Herald. 30 January 1936. p. 12. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  20. ^ "Australian film". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 February 1936. p. 13. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  21. ^ ""UNCIVILISED" WELL ON IN PRODUCTION", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 25 December 1935, nla.obj-561872389, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  22. ^ "Along... FILM ROW", Everyones., 15 (330 (15 April 1936)), Sydney: Everyones Ltd, nla.obj-561142503, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  23. ^ "James Coleman, Scenic Artist, Passes", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 28 July 1937, nla.obj-561455474, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  24. ^ ""UNCIVILISED."". The Sydney Morning Herald. 23 May 1936. p. 23. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  25. ^ p.108 Reade, Eric History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film 1896–1978 1980 Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
  26. ^ "EXPORT OF FILM BANNED". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 September 1936. p. 11. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  27. ^ ""UNCIVILISED."". The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 October 1936. p. 12. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  28. ^ "FILM REVIEWS". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 September 1936. p. 4. Retrieved 10 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  29. ^ "SHADOW SHOWS", The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 30 September 1936, nla.obj-569390615, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  30. ^ "Review of Recent", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 30 September 1936, nla.obj-570069914, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove
  31. ^ "Uncivilised". Variety. 21 October 1936. p. 15.
  32. ^ POPE, QUEINTIN. (11 April 1937). "STALKING THE ABORIGINE". The New York Times. p. 4X.
  33. ^ "'GOLD RUSH' CLEVER REVIVAL". Los Angeles Times. 3 March 1942. p. A9.
  34. ^ "Fascinating Film Opens". Los Angeles Times. 7 March 1942. p. 9.
  35. ^ "Of Local Origin". The New York Times. 21 May 1943. p. 23.
  36. ^ Uncivilised the novel at AustLit
  37. ^ "Chauvel Ready to Commence Expeditionary's 'Uncivilised'.", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 17 July 1935, nla.obj-561362107, retrieved 29 March 2024 – via Trove

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