Movie review - "The Intruders" (1969) **

They should have been able to make a decent movie from Skippy but this just like an episode of the TV show and not a very good one - some smugglers are at work in Malacoota, but the Hammonds get involved because Waratah National Park is a long way from there. Sonny and Clancy wind up kidnapped by the baddies who talk on themselves and Skippy hardly does anything. Come to think of it, neither does Ed Devereaux, Tony Bonner, or any of the others - most of the running time is spent with the criminals.

It looks impressive in the way that most Australian films of the 1960s did - colourful and clean, with some gorgeous blue seas. But Lee Robinson, for all his considerable talents as a producer and documentary filmmaker, was never that good directing drama and by this stage he hadn't improved.