Two Minutes Silence

Two Minutes Silence is a 1933 Australian melodrama set during World War I based on Les Haylens antiwar play. It was the fourth and last feature film by the Sydneybased McDonagh sisters, Paulette, Isobel and Phyllis, who called it by far the best picture we produced. It is considered Australias first antiwar movie and is a lost film.

The play was written by Les Haylen, an Australian journalist who later became an MP. It was originally produced in 1930 at the Community Playhouse in Sydney and ran forperformances overweeks. The McDonagh sisters saw the play and bought the film rights before the run ended. There was also a production in Townsville the following year, and another one in Sydney in 1939.Filming took place in a studio in Centennial Park, Sydney in late 1932. It was logistically difficult because of the difficulty sourcing sound recording equipment and two of the cast, Leo Franklyn and Frank Leighton, had to juggle shooting with their theatre commitments for J.C. Williamson Ltd. In addition, Campbell Copelin was still recovering from his plane crash the previous year. Ethel Gabriel reprised her role from the play version. ........

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