Talk:One Night the Moon

Untitled
At some point, this was adapted into a stageplay, performed by the Malthouse Theater in Melbourne in 2009. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.84.62.80 (talk) 14:02, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

/* Plot */ worldlink
There are numerous other problems; this is the best that I am capable of. Although much of this is rooted in an actual incident, w/o this movie it is sufficiently obscure, & nearly a century old [If the girl were to survive, she would be between seventy & one-hundred], & sung musically dramatically, w/  dream-sequence  photography, that it is, on the first viewing, nearly as though  fiction.

The article is deficient in so many ways, including that it excludes every character, &, all but one player, in the prose  portion.

This seems deficient as well:

< http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt290794 >:


 * Paul Kelly * Father
 * Kaarin Fairfax * Mother
 * Memphis Kelly * Child
 * Kelton Pell * Albert
 * Ruby Hunter * Albert's Wife
 * Chris Haywood * Sergeant
 * David Field * Allman


 * wikipedia:spoiler
 * spoiler_%28media%29
 * spoiler_

That the only place that I've ever found this is Worldlink, I, hereby, add these  weblinks:

< http://linktv.com >;

< http://linktv.org >;

< http://linktv.net >;

< http://worldlinktv.com >;

< http://worldlinktv.net >;

< http://worldlinktv.org >.

< http://democracynow.org >;

< http://democracynow.org.uk >.

< http://pacifica.org/stations/ >;

< http://pacifica.org >;

< http://wbai.org >;

< http://wpfw.org >;

< http://houston.kpft.org/site/PageServer >;

< http://kpfk.org >;

< http://kpfa.org >.

Thank You,

&#91;&#91; hopiakuta Please do  sign  your  signature  on your  message. %7e%7e  Thank You. -]] 22:30, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Character's names?
I've simplified the cast list to make it easier to read: however, it would benefit from having the name of a couple of characters - "Albert's wife" seems a little over-formal, as does "police sergeant" (I assume their names are mentioned at some point, although I don't have a copy of the film so I can't check). And David Field as "Allman" is only mentioned in the cast list, so it's not clear what role this character plays. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 10:02, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

The original true story
I've been curious about the original story that inspired this movie. I have been unable to find the blacktracker documentary directed by the grandson of Alexander Riley, the aboriginal tracker that Kelton Pell's character is based on. This page says that the true story revolved around a young boy in 1932, but the press kit it references doesn't actually say that. Its my impression (based on original research, and thus not allowed here) that the story is based on a 1940/41 disappearance of a young boy. This biography of Alexander Riley mentions that he helped establish that a missing boy in 1940 was not a result of foul play, but an accident. It doesn't specifically say that he was the person who found the boy, and newspaper articles about the missing boy from Bugaldie (who went missing on Christmas of 1940, but was not found until August of 1941) name "Jack O'Reily" as the person who found the boy's remains. The third newspaper article about this event, does mention that "Jack O'Reily" was a blacktracker from Dubbo, so its likely a pseudonym used by Alexander. The aforementioned biography of Riley mentions another event in 1918, where "after following her footprints across rough and barren terrain, Riley found a barefooted 6-year-old girl who had been lost for twenty-four hours in the mountains near Stuart Town." I would guess that One Night the moon is an amalgamation of these two events. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deproduction (talk • contribs) 23:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)