Film
Lovers and Luggers
Australia- Age rating
- NR
- Director
- Ken G. Hall
- Year
- 1938
Epic pearling adventure romance in glorious sun-splashed tropical settings of Thursday Island!
Daubeney Carshott, a concert pianist, leaves London to dive for pearls on Thursday Island in the South Seas at the whim of Stella Raff, his fiancée. Once there, he discovers that the life he leads as a pearl diver is better in every way than his former existence as a social-lion pianist. He meets and falls in love with Lorna Quidley, after learning this Stella had send other suitors off in quest of a giant pearl for her.
Top cast
Lloyd Hughes
Daubeney Carshott
James Raglan
Bill Craig, alias Craig Henderson
Elaine Hamill
Stella Raff
Sidney Wheeler
Capt. 'Quid' Quidley
Alec Kellaway
McTavish, an Old Sot
Ron Whelan
Mendoza
Campbell Copelin
Archie
Leslie Victor
Dormer, an Old Sot
Charlie Chan
Kishimuni, Pearl Diver
Claude Turton
Charlie Quong
Frank Harvey
Carshott's Personal Manager
Ann Richards
Lorna Quidley (as Shirley Ann Richards)
Directed by
Ken G. Hall
Written by
Edmund Barclay, Frank Harvey