First Victory Loan: Return Journey

First Victory Loan: Return Journey
Directed by	Ken G. Hall
Produced by	Ken G. Hall
Starring	Neva Carr-Glynn John Tate
Production company	Cinesound Productions
Release date	1944
Running time	13 mins
Country	Australia
Language	English

First Victory Loan: Return Journey is a short documentary film directed by Ken G. Hall made to encourage people to subscribe to the First Victory Loan.

Plot

A Padre visits the Davidson Family to console the mother and wife of an Australian soldier killed at the front.

Attempting to calm the angry wife, the padre relates his experience of his ship being torpedoed and then being stranded at sea on an open lifeboat for many days. One of the two who died of wounds on the lifeboat was the Padre's only brother.

References

External links

First Victory Loan: Return Journey at IMDB
Return Journey at Australian War Memorial
Return Journey at National Film and Sound Archive

Films directed and produced by Ken G. Hall
Feature Films	The Exploits of the Emden (1928) On Our Selection (1932) The Squatter's Daughter (1933) Cinesound Varieties (1934) The Silence of Dean Maitland (1934) Strike Me Lucky (1934) Grandad Rudd (1935) Thoroughbred (1936) Orphan of the Wilderness (1936) It Isn't Done (1937) Tall Timbers (1937) Lovers and Luggers (1937) The Broken Melody (1938) Let George Do It (1938) Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938) Gone to the Dogs (1939) Come Up Smiling (1939) (producer only) Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939) Dad Rudd, M.P. (1940) Smithy (1946)
Documentaries	Thar She Blows! (1931) That's Cricket (1931) Ghosts of Port Arthur (1933) Road to Victory (1941) Anzacs in Overalls (1941) Australia Marches with Britain (1941) 100,000 Cobbers (1942) Another Threshold (1942) Eleventh Hour (1942) Give Us This Day (1943) South West Pacific (1943) Fourth Liberty Loans: I Had A Son (1943) First Victory Loan: Return Journey (1944) Searchlight on Japan (1948) Can John Braund Cure Cancer? (1948) Thrill of the Surf (1949) Fighting Blood (1951) Australian Bushland Symphony (1952) South Pacific Playground (1953) Overland Adventure (1954) Music in Our Schools (1954) Haven on the Hill (1956) The Kurnell Story (1957)
Newsreels	From Palestine to Bengazi with the Prime Minister (1941) Kokoda Front Line! (1942) Moresby Under the Blitz (1942) Assault on Salamaua (1943) Men of Timor (1943) The Bismarck Convoy Smashed (1943) R.A.A.F. Eagles Over New Guinea (1943)

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