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The Pyjama Girl Murder Case

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The Pyjama Girl Murder Case
Directed byRupert Kathner
Production
company
Enterprise Films
Release dates
  • August 1939 (1939-08)
  • 1944 (1944) (re-release)
Running time
10 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

The Pyjama Girl Murder Case is a dramatised 1939 documentary film from director Rupert Kathner based on the murder of Linda Agostini.[1]

It was an installment of the Australia Today series and was Australia's first "true crime" movie.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "PYJAMA GIRL MURDER FILM". The Northern Standard. Darwin, NT: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1939. p. 9. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  2. ^ 'A murder mystery revisited', University of Sydney, 1 December 2006 accessed 19 August 2012
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