Typhoon Treasure is a 1938 Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n adventure film directed by Noel Monkman

Noel Monkman

Noel Monkman was an Australian filmmaker best known for specialising in underwater photography. He established Australian Educational Films with F.W. Thring, directing a series of educational nature films about the Great Barrier Reef. He later made several documentaries as well as two dramatic...

 set in New Guinea

New Guinea

New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

 although shot on the Great Barrier Reef

Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world'slargest reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately...

 and the Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 coast. Underwater scenes were shot on Green Island

Green Island (Queensland)

Green Island is a very popular coral cay offshore from Cairns, Queensland, Australia located within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park World Heritage Area. The island is surrounded by coral reef and protected in the Green Island National Park. Most visitors come for the day...

.

The story is about Alan Richards (Campbell Copelin

Campbell Copelin

Campbell Copelin was an English-born actor, who moved to Australia in the 1920s and worked extensively in film, theatre, radio and television. He had a notable association with J.C. Williamson Ltd and frequently collaborated with F.W. Thring and Frank Harvey...

), the sole survivor of a pearling lugger which has been shipwrecked, determined to recover some missing pearls.

A shortened version of the film screened in England as The Perils of Pakema Reef.

Cast

• Campbell Copelin
  Campbell Copelin
  Campbell Copelin was an English-born actor, who moved to Australia in the 1920s and worked extensively in film, theatre, radio and television. He had a notable association with J.C. Williamson Ltd and frequently collaborated with F.W. Thring and Frank Harvey...
  
   as Alan Richards
• Gwen Munro
  Gwen Munro
  Gwen Munro was an Australian actor best known for playing the female lead in Orphan of the Wilderness .-Biography:Munro grew up in privileged circumstances in Toorak, Melbourne and was partly educated in Switzerland and a finishing school in Paris. On returning to Australia she entered a beauty...
  
   as Jean Roberts
• Joe Valli
  Joe Valli
  Joe Valli was a Scottish actor, who worked for many years in Australian vaudeville and film. He had a long-running vaudeville partnership with Pat Hanna, Chic and Joe.- Selected filmography :* Diggers * Waltzing Matilda...
  
   as Scotty McLeod
• Douglas Herald as Buck Thompson
• Kenneth Brampton as Alfred Webb
• Norman French as patrol officer

External links

• Typhoon Treasure at National Film and Sound Archive
  National Film and Sound Archive
  The National Film and Sound Archive is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of audiovisual materials and related items...