Walk Into Paradise is a 1956 Australian adventure film

Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....

 directed by Lee Robinson and Marcello Pagliero

Marcello Pagliero

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 shot on location in the highlands of Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

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The movie was a French-Australian co-production between Southern International and Discifilm. Every scene was shot twice - once in French, once in English. Pagliero would direct the French version, Robinson would do the English.

Director Lee Robinson was nominated for the Golden Palm Award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival

1956 Cannes Film Festival

-Jury:*Maurice Lehmann *Arletty *Louise de Vilmorin *Jacques-Pierre Frogerais *Henri Jeanson *Domenico Meccoli *Otto Preminger *James Quinn *Roger Regent *María Romero...

, but was beaten by Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...

 and Louis Malle

Louis Malle

Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...

 for Le Monde du silence.

American producer Joseph E. Levine

Joseph E. Levine

Joseph E. Levine was an American film producer.He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His Embassy Pictures Corporation was an independent studio and distributor responsible for such films as Hercules , The Carpetbaggers, Harlow, The Graduate, A Bridge Too Far and The Lion in Winter.Levine is famous...

 purchased the film for distribution and added more jungle footage. When the film did poor business he retitled it Walk into Hell that increased its earnings dramatically.

Cast

• Chips Rafferty
  Chips Rafferty
  Chips Rafferty MBE was an iconic Australian actor. Called "the living symbol of the typical Australian", Rafferty's career stretched from the 1940s until his death in 1971, and during this time he performed regularly in major Australian feature films as well as appearing in British and American...
  
   as Steve MacAllister
• Françoise Christophe as Dr. Louise Dumarcet
• Reg Lye as Ned 'Shark-eye' Kelley (as Reginald Lye)
• Pierre Cressoy as Jeff Clayton
• Sergeant Major Somu as Sgt.-Major Towalaka
• District Officer Fred Kaad as Fred Kaad
• Capt. Richard Davis as Captain Richard Davis

External links

• Walk Into Paradise at Australian Screen Online
  Australian Screen Online
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• Trailer at You Tube