Eleventh Hour (1942 documentary film)


Eleventh Hour is a 1942 Australian short documentary film from director Ken G. Hall for the Department of Information.
It was the third in a series of movies to promote Austerity War Loans, following Another Threshold.

Plot

A woman wonders if the sacrifices of war are worth it. Her first World War veteran husband assures her that it is.

Cast

The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that:
Ken Hall... has used the Anzac Day memorial services with effect... should rally the dilatory to the war bond booths. Muriel Steinbeck Is splendid... The mournful retrospection of... ... could with advantage be less insistent in the script, and more heartening implication and less exhortation be given to the propaganda angle of the narrative.
Smith's Weekly said "Nothing is over-dramatised, and the mother...in the opening scenes particularly, is genuinely moving." The Age called it "impressive".