A Co-respondent's Course (1931)

Solicitor James Lord is in love with Nellie. She tells him she is going away for a week with her friend May to Portsea where there are many nice boys. Nellie gets the dates wrong and goes a day early. When James finds out he worries she is cheating on him. His client Rouse comes in and says he is convinced his wife is cheating on him a man called Dane. They hire three private eyes from Sleath's Detective Agency, Hall, Ratchet and Moon, to keep an eye on women.

Date of release
1931-03-24
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
42m
Genres
Comedy
Director
E.A. Dietrich-Derrick

Casting

Interesting facts

A Co-respondent's Course is a short 1931 Australian film. The screenplay was written by Montague Grover (1870–1943), an experienced journalist. The film was the first film made by Efftee Studios, a production company owned by F.W. Thring, the first Australian narrative film to be completed with an optical soundtrack and part of the first all-Australian full-length unit programme to be screened in Australia.

Production

The film was directed by a young European, E.A. Dietrich-Derrick and was written by Monty Grover, editor of Melbourne tabloid The Sun. It was the first film produced by Efftee and was shot between April and June 1931. Filmink wrote "We’re not sure why Thring thought A Co-Respondent’s Course would make ideal film material."

Thring made a cameo in the film but ordered that he be cut out after the first screening.

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