![]() "Mystery Island was actually released in 1937 and it was a pretty average movie, but I think the audiences appreciated the comparison between fiction and real life, with this mystery about the Mystery Island ," she said.Ī Wackett Gannet aircraft stationed at Old Bar during World War II. ![]() "A major search was done, and Old Bar was one of the bases for the planes searching up and down the coast and three RAAF planes joined in on that search," Ms Roberts said. The crew returned to the mainland on the SS Morinda, but the two actors decided to make the return trip in a 16-foot boat and a week later there was no sign of them. The first was for two actors, Australian film star Brian Abbot and fellow actor Desmond Hay (Leslie Hay-Simpson), who had gone to Lord Howe Island in 1936 with a crew of 30 to film the movie Mystery Island. In the 1930s the airfield served as a base for two prominent air searches. ( Supplied: Samuel J Hood Studio Collection, Australian National Maritime Museum) Brian Abbot farewelling his wife before leaving to film on Lord Howe Island.
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