a remake of Tall Timber (1926) a remake of The Fatal Wedding (1911) Rudd's New Selection, a sequel to On Our Selection Big Timber from a script by Edmond Seward from the novel by William Hatfield – It is likely this project was bumped for Tall Timbers (1937) Gold Dust and Ashes from a story by Ion Idriess film written by Kenneth Wilkinson about koalas to be directed by Frank Hurley along the lines of Man of Aran (1934) – this was to be one of a series of naturalistic films from Hurley written by Wilkinson – this plan was abandoned by April 1936 film shot by Frank Hurley about an expedition to the South Pole partially shot in Antarctica Pearl of Great Price, a story about the pearling trade – this may have become Lovers and Luggers Yellow Sands – a "thrilling tale of Australian sport and manhood" The Haunted House the story of the Overland Telegraph an adaptation of the novel Robbery Under Arms a version of the Eureka Stockade story. Life of Melba, a biopic about opera singer Nellie Melba starring Marjorie Lawrence – announced September 1939, film meant to start in June 1940. John Boles was to co-star. However the war caused these plans to be pushed back. adaptation of Tusitala to be made in the 1960s Hall intended to cast overseas stars in the lead of Overland Telegraph, Robbery Under Arms and Erueka Stockade. Robbery Under Arms Of all these an adaptation of Robbery Under Arms was the most frequently discussed – Ken G. Hall later described it as "the film I wanted to make more than any other". Film rights were bought from Raymond Longford (for a reported £1,500) and a script prepared. The film was meant to be Cinesound's third feature and was announced on 20 March 1933. There were plans to shoot it in colour. It was pushed back to be Cinesound's fourth feature and John Longden signed to play Captain Starlight. A budget of £20,000 was allocated with filming to take place in Burraganong Valley. Edmund Barclay wrote the script. The movie was then pushed back to enable filming of Cinesound Varieties. Shooting was meant to start after that but it was winter and experience of Squatter's Daughter showed this cost time so the film was postponed again. Another reason is that Cinesound had trouble with the censor on The Silence