The Devil's Playground

A Romance of the Pacific

The Devil's Playground is a 1928 Australian feature-length film set in the South Seas. It was produced by a largely amateur group from the north shore of Sydney.

TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Genres
Adventure, Drama
Director
Victor A. Bindley

Casting

Interesting facts

The Devil's Playground is a 1928 Australian feature-length film set in the South Seas. It was produced by a largely amateur group from the north shore of Sydney.

Production

The film was made by a largely amateur group who formed a company, Fine art Film, in 1927 with a capital of £2,000.

Their first production was the Pacific Island adventure, Trobriana, which was never released. Scenes were shot on beaches near Sydney and interiors in the Mosman Town Hall. Natives were played by Sydney lifeguards in black face.

It was known during filming as Pearl of the Pacific.

Cast member Elza Stenning married sculptor Lyndon Dadswell in 1930; she had a small part in F. W. Thring's Harmony Row then became an opera star; they divorced in 1939. She married financier Ian Mathieson Jacoby and as Elsa Jacoby became a well-known Sydney society matron.

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