After The Overlanders he was signed to a long term contract by Ealing. Here's what resulted.
- Bush Christmas - perfect choice
- The Loves of Joanna Godden - awful
- Eureka Stockade - awful
- Bitter Springs - ideal.
Rank/Ealing made The Shiralee, which could've used Rafferty, though he wasn't that sexy - also Robbery Under Arms... as the boys' dad. He would've suited The Siege of Pimchgut as the lead instead of Aldo Ray. But really that film should've been about German POWs.
Ealing announced Pepper Springs for him and Tommy Trinder which doesn't sound that great but would've been better than Eureka Stockade.
He didn't really have the romantic look for the lead in Sons of Matthew.
Okay so here's what would've worked:
- Eureka Stockade with Rafferty as a fictional lead and Peter Finch or someone else as Lalor and someone handsome to do the romance
- Siege of Pinchgut with Chips as main cop
- an adaptation of We of the Never Never with Chips as the husband
- a variation of The Overlanders only set in New Guinea i.e. group fleeing Japanese
- adaptation of The Long Shadow by Jon Cleary
- Mary Bryant story with Chips as Will
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