When the Queen Came to Town

2014
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Released: 28 November 2014 Released
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The Queen's maiden visit to Australia in 1954 marked the end of one era and the dawn of another. It was post-depression, post WWII, and pre TV, and Australians came in their millions to bask in the presence of a monarch.

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Documentary

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Maurice Murphy

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When the Queen Came to Town Audience Reviews

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Megan Ball The original footage of the queen's visit was great and interesting to see scenes of Australia and people in 1950s. I pity the queen having to sit through so many "performances"! I found the commentary and the additional fairy tale story telling banal. The 70 minutes felt like 2 hours. It was of interest how and why the queen's visit caught the interest of so many people however I don't think this was explored in any depth. In fact nothing was explored to any depth it was quite a superficial documentary. However as stated previously the archival film of the visit made this film worth seeing. I imagine the film would be of great interest to those who were around in the day and remember the queen's visit. Surely there was more archival photographs and films that could have been used rather than pad it out with Bert Newton's commentary and Loraine Bailey's fairy tale which did nothing to add to the film.