its capital was Sydney* so I came here," said Decharne."I also heard that Australians appreciated French films better than any other country outside Europe. 'La Ronde' made more money in Australia than it did in France." Robinson later claimed that 60% of the money invested in the film came from housewives. The French actors arrived in Australia in June 1955. Shooting Shooting began in New Guinea in June 1955 and took place over twelve weeks. The unit was based out of Goroka. Every scene was shot twice, once in French, once in English: Pagliero would direct the French version, Robinson would do the English. Robinson got along well with Pagliero calling him "one of the most delightful guys you would ever meet in your life" He says after the first few days of filming both "very quickly realised that you can only have one boss on the floor of the set." They decided that Pagliero would through the scenes with the French actors in the morning and when the Australian actors had to speak French Pagliero would "get all the dialogue done out on idiot boards for them." Robinson said Pagliero "stood back from the film and worked with his actors a bit, helped the Australian actors with the French dialogue" but contributed more than Robinson originally thought because they would discuss scenes at night. Robinson said he clashed with the Frenchman only once, during a scene involving the lowering of the Australian flag but "it was a national argument rather than a film argument. But he was terribly aware of the fact that confusion would arise if the two of us were trying to run the set." Despite the difficulties of shooting on location, the film was infused only three days behind schedule. The film was edited in Paris. Release The film was released in France as L'Odyssée du Capitaine Steve. A novelisation of the script by Gavin Casey was published in 1956. The film screened at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. Director Lee Robinson was nominated for the Golden Palm Award but was beaten by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle for Le Monde du silence. American producer Joseph E. Levine purchased the film for distribution and added more jungle footage. When the film did poor business he retitled it Walk Into Hell, which increased its earnings dramatically. Robinson claimed at one stage the movie was one of the