Shady Lady

Synopsis

This is the epic story of a B-24 'Liberator' bomber aircraft called 'Shady Lady', that took off from Darwin, Australia, on Friday, 13th August 1943, on what was at that time, the world's longest ever attempted bombing mission. Under the command of 'Doug' Craig, 'Shady Lady' set off with 10 other aircraft to attack the oil refineries at Balikpapan, Borneo. With the target hundreds of miles behind enemy lines, this was an audacious attempt to strike back at the Imperial Japanese Army. 'Shady Lady' survived intense tropical thunderstorms, serious turbulence, heavy enemy antiaircraft fire and was chased by Japanese Zero fighters - but never made it back to base. 'Shady Lady,' after 16 hours and 35 minutes in the air, ran out of fuel and was crash-landed in a salt-pan, in the remotest part of Northern Australia. Local support from the Aborigines and a massive rescue mission amazingly saw 'Shady Lady' - fly again.

Main Cast

Michael Dorn

Narrator

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Ross Neuenfeldt

1st Lt. Doug S Craig

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Andrew Harwood Mills

Captain Bob Horn

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Gregory Kanter

2nd Lt. Robert L Jackson

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Jim Alexander

Lt. Colonel Miller

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Robert Harley Wainwright

RAAF Group Captain

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Shaun Morton

Flt. Lt. Burr

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Andrew Adler

Flying Officer Ruston

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Tristan Loraine
Writing	Screenplay	Glenn R. Horton Lindsay Peet Vivienne Young Tristan Loraine
Art	Production Design	Chloë Potter
	Art Direction	Suzi Morris
Production	Producer	Tristan Loraine
	Production Manager	Susan Michaelis
Sound	Sound Designer	David Smithers
	Original Music Composer	Moritz Schmittat
Camera	Director of Photography	Nathalie Grace
Editing	Editor	Tristan Loraine
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