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PERSPIRATION dripped from Brian Aherne's forehead. The day was not oppressively warm, just one of Southern California's mild Spring days which the natives delight in calling "usual." Aherne's discomfort came from the heavyweight clothing he was wearing as Captain Fury, the titular hero of the Hal Roach picture of that name in which he and Victor McLaglen as political prisoners are shipped from England in the 1840's to serve their sentences as convict laborers in the colonization of Australia.
Over a woolen shirt he wore a leather and lambswool jacket. His trousers were of heavy wool with leather boots reaching almost to his knees and his "ten gallon" felt hat rested on
From Down Under
On Location, Filming The Days Of The Colonization Of Australia
By Frank N. Seltzer
his shoulders, kept in place by a leather strap around his neck.
More perspiration coursed down his cheeks as he and his co-star, McLaglen, rehearsed "the scene under the direction of Hal Roach, who is so intrigued with the colorful story that he has come out of his executive offices to resume a directorial career he abandoned some five or six years ago when his duties of producer and head of the motion picture company became too taxing.
Finally Aherne tired of his martyrdom.
"Please, Mr. Roach, cant we have those reflectors turned down while we are rehearsing? The heat and the glare are terrific."
A henchman of the greedy land barons drives out a helpless family of settlers. Only a hundred years ago this scene was unpleasantly real.