Phantom Gold

Phantom Gold is a 1936 adventure film about the search for Lasseters Reef. It was the first feature from director Rupert Kathner.

Pilots W.L. Pittendrigh and S.J. Hamre go looking for Lasseter but run out of fuel and are forced to land in the desert. They are there for three weeks before being rescued. Bob Buck discovers Lasseters body and buries him. The gold reef is never found.In April 1936 Sydney businessman H.V. Foy led an expedition to discover Lasseters Reef in central Australia. He took two filmmakers with him, Rupert Kathner and Stan Tolhurst, to record the trip. Along the way they encountered several people who knew Lassester, including Bob Buck, the bushman who found his dead body, and Old Warts, an aboriginal who befriended him. ........

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