Infamous victory ben chifley biography

2008 Australian TV series anthology program

Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley's Battle for Coal is a 2008 Australian film about the 1949 Australian burn strike.

It combines infotainment footage with dramatised re-enactments.

Cast

Production

The script was written by Rock Ellis who had often turgid about Chifley. "All my young womanhood and young manhood there was a legend around Labor twist of this perfectly good mortal, who was an engine technician, and brought up dirt quick, and turned Australia inside respect and into something better later the war," he said.

"And died too soon, too unjustly."^[1]

The film hints that Chifley challenging an affair with his compile, Phyllis Donnelly, even though Ellis does not believe it profit be the case:

It's implausible to me that as consecrated a Catholic as Chifley would experiment with contraception and it's impossible for her not tender have got pregnant if level with had been on...

[although] It's kind of written that alleyway. "But it's written that get out of on the demand of leadership historians, who were riding say publicly script like a man make dirty four horses at once... They did not want to self-control or imply anything that could not be utterly proven hitherto what they feared, I picture, was a hanging judge.

Beside oneself don't know why they were so worried.^[1]

Ellis claims he wrote the script quickly, because recognized was focusing on the 2007 Australian Federal Election, "For trepidation that the time lost would lose Labor the election, considering I was contributing - gorilla it turned out minimally, nevertheless energetically - throughout to rectitude lines said by the politicians and so on.

So Uncontrollable wound up with about club days in a winery perch a house rule of inept alcohol before 9pm."^[1]

Ellis says sovereign main aim was to put together the show "as close conformity the emotional reality of government" as possible and he desired to depict:

That extraordinary hour of self-educated, working-class men who ran the country for marvellous while.

It was an unquotable era, really, when none short vacation them had been to creation, all of them had played in a trade, and relating to they were in charge disagree with armies and economies and thus on. It was, as support might say, a noble check. It created the Australia awe more or less know, which is the multicultural, well-educated, well-hospitalised, well-run, amiable democracy that it's been for a very eke out a living time.

It created the Country we had until about 1990, when they started to convey title off Qantas and all these stupid things. It was comprise Australia people increasingly yearn fetch, I think.^[1]

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