The Wagon and the Star

The Wagon and the Star
Directed by	J.J.W. Pollard
Produced by	J.J.W. Pollard
Written by	J.J.W. Pollard
Starring	John Peake Faye Hinchley William (Bill) Buchanan
Music by	Howard Moody
Cinematography	Lee Hill
Release dates	1936 (1936)
Language	English
Budget	£15,000

The Wagon and the Star (or Waggon with 2x g) was a 1936 New Zealand film by producer/director J.J.W. Pollard, the editor of the Southland Times who also wrote the screenplay. Only one reel of the film and some out-takes survive. The handbuilt camera used was built by Ted Coubray and "confiscated" by Alexander Markey on the set of Hei Tiki.

Plot

Two migrants from "Home" John Hawthron and Andrew Henderson from Scotland meet on a road building gang. John has not yet made his fortune in the new country, but he eventually builds up a large transport and accommodation business and marries Mary the daughter of a local landowner, despite the presence of a villainous local lawyer.

Cast

Most of the cast were amateurs from the local operatic society in Invercargill.

• John Peake as John Hawthron
• Faye Hinchley as Mary Tyson
• William (Bill) Buchanan as Andrew Henderson
• TR Vanity ( Tom Pryde ) as Hubert Throstle

References

• New Zealand Film 1912-1996 by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p48 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland) ISBN 019 558336 1