Into the Straight (1949)

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Into the Straight is a 1949 Australian horse racing melodrama directed by T. O. McCreadie. It used many cast and crew from their first effort, Always Another Dawn.

Production

The film was made by the same team that had made Always Another Dawn.

Charles Tingwell also worked as a trainee to Alex Ezard. Filmink later wrote "Steinbeck was the biggest name in the cast at the time, but it isn’t much of a role… and in hindsight that was a mistake. The filmmakers would have been better off building the movie around Steinbeck – either have her play the role of her daughter... or made her character the center of the action.

Star James Workman - who later became a radio writer - recalled "The McCreadies were very nice people but they were convinced that they knew all the answers. .. They ran cinemas so they thought they knew what people wanted so they shoved it all into the one film, no explanations no nothing.”

Shooting began in June 1948, on location in Scone, New South Wales, and at the studio of Commonwealth Film Laboratories in Sydney. The Victoria Racing Club allowed a re-creation of the Melbourne Cup to be shot at Flemington Racecourse and scenes were also filmed at Randwick Racecourse. Several jockeys made cameos in the film, including Jack Purtell and George Moore.

The film featured a piano concerto which took up several minutes of screen time.

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