Journey for Three

New Zealand black and white immigration propaganda film

1950 (1950)

Running time

45 minutesCountryNew ZealandLanguageEnglish

Journey for Three is a 1950 New Zealand black and white immigration propaganda film.^[1]

Synopsis

This film dramatised postwar immigration to New Zealand.^[1] Three British citizens travel and settle down in New Zealand, and the film shows their hopes, jobs, challenges, and adventures.^[1]

Cast

Elizabeth Armstrong as Cassie McLeod
Margaret McNulty as Margaret Allen
Stewart Pilkington as Harry White
Francis Renner as The Foreman

Production

This was an immigration propaganda film production released by the National Film Unit.^[1] The film had a theatrical release in the UK.^[1]

Reviews

1950 Ashburton Guardian - Comment on N.Z. film.^[2]
1995 featured in New Zealand's contribution to the British Film Institute's Century of Cinema series - Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill.^[3]
2011 "...made by the New Zealand National Film Unit, was the most ambitious film the Unit had ever embarked on."^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Journey for Three". NZ On Screen. Archives New Zealand. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
^ "Comment on N.Z. film "Journey for Three" in Britain". Papers Past. No. 127, Vol 70. Ashburton Guardian. 14 March 1950. p. 3. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
^ "Cinema of Unease". NZ On Screen. Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
^ Sigley, Simon (2011). "Rites of Passage in Post-Second World War New Zealand Cinema: Migrating the Masculine in 'Journey for Three'". academia.edu. Retrieved 24 January 2023.