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Sheepmates
Sheepmates was a proposed Australian film from director F. W. Thring based on a 1931 novel by William Hatfield.
Development.
Thring bought the rights to Hatfield's novel in mid 1933. He paid a reported £300.
Tom Holt, Efftee's manager, stated that:
The production of 'Sheepmates' is a decided departure from our policy of adhering to comedy. It is a truly remarkable drama of out back Australia, artistically in a class above anything we have yet attempted. Though it may
view to having American writers adapt them into screenplay form, suggesting he still intended to use the footage he had shot. However Thring died soon after he returned to Australia in June and "Sheepmates" was never completed.
Cast.
- Frank Harvey
- Campbell Copelin
- Claude Flemming
- George Wallace
- Guy Hastings
- Victor Fitzherbert
- Henry Wenham
External links.
- "Sheepmates" at National Film and Sound Archive