The Kingdom of Twilight

The Kingdom of Twilight is a 1929 British-Australian film directed by British author and explorer Alexander MacDonald.

[6] Jim Carrington leaves England with his daughter Dorothy after a scandal, and seeks his fortune as a gold prospector in northern Australia.

MacDonald had previously made a film called The Unsleeping Eye (1928) in Papua, which was a commercial success.

He reused many cast and crew on this film, including his wife, actor Wendy Osborne.

In June he said "I believe there is a great future for films'of the British-Empire; they can play a big part in knitting the Empire together, and in pushing the British name abroad.

[20] Scenes were shot at an old mining camp with an aboriginal corroboree staged in the Mungana Caves nearby.

In January 1929 it was announced the film's title had changed from Tanami to Kingdom of Twilight and that MacDonald and his crew would return to Australia later that year to make a third movie, based in the Solomon Islands.

[28] In September 1933 MacDonald returned to Australia and announced he planned to add sound to the film, and The Unsleeping Eye.