Bush Christmas

Bush Christmas (1947)

Four children... Three horse thieves... One amazing adventure!

In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.

Date of release
1947-07-28
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Director
Ralph Smart

Casting

Interesting facts

Bush Christmas is a 1947 Australian–British comedy film directed by Ralph Smart and starring Chips Rafferty. It was one of the first films from Children's Entertainment Films, later the Children's Film Foundation.

Development

Children's Entertainment Films had been set up by Mary Field for the Rank Organisation to make films to be screened to children in cinema clubs throughout England on Saturday mornings.

In August 1945, it was announced that Ralph Smart would write and direct Bush Christmas for exhibition in the cinema clubs. Smart was an Englishman who had worked in Australia during the war. He wanted to make a children's film but had been unable to find a suitable story so decided to write one himself. He wrote the script for maximum action and minimum dialogue.

It was to be the first in a series of children's films set in the Empire.

The film was financed by the Rank Organisation, which had also financed The Overlanders (1946) in Australia. Smart had worked on that film, which made a star of Chips Rafferty who signed on to star in Bush Christmas. He also assisted in casting.

Bush Christmas was originally planned as a serial, but it was then decided to turn it into a feature.

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