Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), Wednesday 28 November 1951, page 57


Local movie on television

"CAPTAIN THUNDER-

BOLT," a film about the last of the N.S.W. bushrangers, will soon be seen on television screens in New York.

It will be the first Aus-tralian full-length film to be broadcast on tele-vision.

"Captain Thunder-bolt" is scheduled to re-ceive its world premiere at Armidale (N.S.W.) next month.

Police ended the bush-ranger's career of mail stick-ups at Kentucky Station, a few miles from Armidale, in the early 1870's.

New England residents later paid for a monu-ment to him in the Uralla Cemetery.

How the film was made for the phenomenally low cost of £15,000 is told in an article, illus-trated in full color, in A.M. for November, now on sale.