Uncivilised
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Uncivilised is a 1936 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel.

The film is known as Uncivilized in the USA.

Plot summary

Successful authoress Beatrice Lynn is commissioned by her publisher to go to the Outback
Outback
The Outback is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia, term colloquially can refer to any lands outside the main urban areas. The term "the outback" is generally used to refer to locations that are comparatively more remote than those areas named "the bush".-Overview:The outback is home to a...

 and locate the legendary white man, Mala, who heads an aboriginal tribe. Travelling by camel, she is abducted by an Afghan, Akbar Jhan and his group of aborginals who provide pituri, a narcotic to aboriginals. Previously not allowed into Mala's tribal land to sell his wares, Akbar Jhan has schemed to use Beatrice, a white woman to arouse Mala's interest.

Meanwhile the Australian Mounted Police has its hands full with a missing Inspector, an international drug ring, and a tribe of hostile aboriginals led by the savage Moopil who have killed two prospectors as well as searching for the missing Beatrice.

Cast

  • Margot Rhys as Beatrice Lynn
  • Dennis Hoey
    Dennis Hoey
    Dennis Hoey was a British film and stage actor, best known for playing Inspector Lestrade in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series. He played the Master of Harrow in The Foxes of Harrow and appeared in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman. After a career as a singer, Hoey moved to acting on the stage in...

     as Mara the White Chief
  • Ashton Jarry as The Mounted Policeman - posing as Akbar Jhan the White Slaver
  • Marcelle Marnay as Sondra the Half-Caste
  • Kenneth Brampton
    Kenneth Brampton
    -Filmography:*Robbery Under Arms - actor, director*The Dingo - director, writer*The Hayseeds - actor*Splendid Fellows - writer*Uncivilised - actor*Typhoon Treasure - actor-External Links:...

     as Trask the Opium Smuggler
  • Victor Fitzherbert as John Hemmingway, publisher
  • E. Gilbert Howell as Vitchi the Witch Doctor
  • Edward Sylveni as Salter
  • P. Dwyer as Bloom, a prospector
  • Rita Aslim as Nardin
  • John Fernside as Captain
  • Jessica Malone as Hemmingway's Secretary
  • Richard Mazar as Tong
  • Z. Gee as Tiki
  • David McNiven
  • Norman Rutledge

Production

Filmed in Queensland and Chauvel's Sydney studio, Uncivilised had to have two scenes excised by the censor for export. One scene was Margot Rhys swimming nude, another was a strangulation of an aborigine. Margot Rhys had also appeared in Chauvel's previous film Heritage.
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