100,000 Cobbers is a well made 1942 dramatised documentary by director Ken G. Hall for the Australian Department of Information during World War II to boost recruitment into the armed forces. Grant Taylor, Joe Valli and Shirley Ann Richards play fictitious characters.
Grant Taylor was an English-Australian actor best known as the abrasive General Henderson in the Gerry Anderson science fiction series UFO (1970).
Cinesound Productions were commissioned to make the film by the Department of Information. The original title was Democratic Army. Director Ken G. Hall said he wanted to make a featurette as opposed to a documentary film. The theme of it was to "show that a man may not have a friend in the world, but from the moment he joins the Army he has "cobbers" in plenty."
100,000 Cobbers was mostly filmed at Liverpool Military camp using national servicemen. There was also location shooting at Luna Park.
Cast:
Sgt John Fleeting, AIF as Peter Montgomery
Joe Valli, ex-AIF as Scotty
Sig. Barry Ross, AIF as William "Bluey" Baker
Pvte Grant Taylor, AMF as Bill
Gilbert Ellis as Jim
Aileen Britten as Miss Lane
Shirley Ann Richards
Lorna Westbrook as Blondie
Patricia Firman as Jean
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