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Weekly Review No. 374 - The Coaster
Short Film (Full Length) – 1948
Signed on with the wind and the weather, it's not a romantic life, you're a bit of a slave. It's plain hard hazardous work to work with the white collared wave.– Narrator
...the one single, most exciting thing in this week's world of celluloid was the Government Film Studio's production The Coaster; and I was pleased to see that the audience at the Regent agreed with me, punctuating the film with frequent laughter and spontaneous applause ... the film is made momentous by the superb narration.– Reviewer in Wellington's Evening Post, 8 November 1948
If ocean's hungry so are sailors too. There's comfort in a plate of Irish stew and all philosophy may lie in custard pudding or an apple pie– Narrator
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