Southern International Productions was an Australian film production company established in the 1950s by Lee Robinson and

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. It was established after the success of ''The Phantom Stockman'' from Playtpus Productions with Rafferty, Robinson and George Heath. Heath left the company and they set up Southern International. Its first film was ''King of the Coral Sea''. For a few years it was the most prolific film production company in Australia, pioneering international co-productions with France, but a series of box office failures starting with ''

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'' caused it to be liquidated. Rafferty left producing but Lee Robinson later formed another company, Fauna, with actor

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. Robinson and Rafferty later formed another company, Australian Television Enterprises, to make films for TV. This was valued at £250,000.

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King of the Coral Sea ''King of the Coral Sea'' is a 1954 film starring Chips Rafferty and Charles Tingwell, directed by Lee Robinson and shot on location in Thursday Island. It was one of the most commercially successful Australian films of the 1950s and was Rod Tay ...

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Walk into Paradise ''Walk Into Paradise'' (also known as ''Walk Into Hell'') is a 1956 French-Australian international co-production adventure film directed by Lee Robinson and Marcello Pagliero and starring Chips Rafferty and Françoise Christophe. It was sho ...

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The Restless and the Damned ''The Restless and the Damned'' (also known as ''L'Ambitieuse'') is a 1959 French-Australian film co produced by Lee Robinson. It was shot on location in Tahiti and the Tuamotu Islands. There are French and English-language versions. The film's ...

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