• Rex Rienits (17 April 1909 – 1971) was an Australian writer of radio, films, plays and TV. He was a journalist before becoming one of the leading radio...
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  • American actor Rex Reed (born 1938), American journalist and film critic Rex Richardson (born 1983), American politician Rex Rienits (1909–1971), Australian...
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    Eureka Stockade (1949 film) (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    Massacre Hill. Rex Rienits wrote a book based on the script, which was published in 1949. The book included stills from the film. Rienits, Rex. The Eureka...
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  • A Shilling For Candles: broadcast in 1954, 1963 and 1969, adapted by Rex Rienits; in 1998, adapted by John Fletcher Miss Pym Disposes: broadcast in 1952...
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  • Bodgie (film) (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    by Rex Rienits and previously filmed in Britain as the film Wide Boy (1952). Rienits also adapted this story as a radio play and as a novel. Rienits' script...
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  • Bryant party's escape was the subject of a ten episode serial, written by Rex Rienits, broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission during 1963. Mary...
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  • 1954, adapted by Rex Rienits and produced by Charles Lefeaux. Part of the Saturday Night Theatre series. 1963, adapted by Rex Rienits and produced by Audrey...
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  • Assassin for Hire (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    also became a successful film." Rienits later turned the story into a novel. It was published along with the Rienits short story Wide Boy which was later...
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  • Stormy Petrel (radio serial) (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    Bligh by Rex Rienits. It aired Mondays to Thursdays at 6.40pm on the ABC. It was very popular and was produced again in 1953 and 1959. Rienits sold it...
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  • The Last Outlaw (BBC radio serial) (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    The Last Outlaw is a 1963 British radio serial by Rex Rienits about Ned Kelly. It is not to be confused with the 1980 Australian mini series about Kelly...
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  • Stockbroker The novel had previously been adapted for British TV in 1950 by Rex Rienits. Producer Daniel Angel bought the film rights to the adaptation. The...
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    Australian Encyclopaedia Vol.I. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. pp. 171–2. Rex Rienits, ed. (1970). Australia's Heritage Vol.1. Sydney: Paul Hamlyn. pp. 254–7...
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  • Lightning Strikes Twice (play) (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    Lightning Strikes Twice is a 1944 Australian stage play by Rex Rienits. Rienits originally wrote it as a vehicle for Marie Ney. It was presented by the...
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    considering what the astronomers had to work with. Rienits & Rienits 1976, p. 39. Herdendorf 1986. Rienits & Rienits 1976, p. 28. London Missionary Society, ed...
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    and her life was dramatised in the radio plays Fulfilment (1948) by Rex Rienits and Mary Reibey by Dymphna Cusack. Australia portal Biography portal...
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  • Fulfilment (radio play) (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    Fulfilment is a 1948 Australian radio drama by Rex Rienits about Mary Reibey that aired on the ABC. The play was popular and was performed again in 1951...
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  • Midnight Interlude (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    Australian radio play by Rex Rienits. It was one of the earliest Australian written plays on radio. The play helped launch Rienits' career as a radio writer...
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  • Margaret Catchpole (radio play) (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    radio drama by Rex Rienits about Margaret Catchpole. It was one of several dramatisations of Australian historical figures by Rienits. Plays on Australian...
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  • episode of Lux Radio Theatre. The play is not to be confused with the Rex Rienits radio play about Mary Reibey, Fulfilment. "In 1792, 15-year-old Mary...
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  • Jazz Boat (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    written by John Antrobus and Hughes based on the 1960 novel Jazz Boat by Rex Rienits. The cinematographer was Nicolas Roeg. Many of the cast and the same...
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  • the first adaptation of a Christie book for radio in the UK. Adaptors: Rex Rienits and Colin Willock Music composed and conducted by: Alan Paul Producer:...
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  • Margaret Catchpole (radio serial) (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    radio drama by Rex Rienits about Margaret Catchpole. It was one of several dramatisations of Australian historical figures by Rienits. Plays on Australian...
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  • Out of the Clouds (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    loosely based on the novel The Springboard by John Fores and was adapted by Rex Reinits, with a screenplay by Michael Relph and John Eldridge. An Ealing...
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  • Close to the Roof (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    as Charlie Perelli The play was based on stage play called Hideout by Rex Rienits and Stewart Howard which was produced at Sydney's Independent Theatre...
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  • Burst of Summer by Oriel Gray. Burst of Summer was written by Gray and Rex Rienits and was released on 9 August 1961 in Melbourne, on 4 October 1961 in...
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  • Walk Into Paradise (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    on a story by Robinson and Rex Rienits wrote a script. However Robinson later said they "weren't able to use" what Rienits had written. Robinson elaborated:...
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  • The Last Outlaw (radio serial) (category Works by Rex Rienits)
    The Last Outlaw is a 1963 British radio serial by Rex Rienits about Ned Kelly. It is not to be confused with the 1980 Australian mini series about Kelly...
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    Heritage list draws a line in the sand to protect dunes (SMH article). Rienits, Rex; Rienits, Thea (1968). The Voyages of Captain Cook. ISBN 9780600006190. "(not...
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  • six years in London. He became a staff writer at the ABC. He replaced Rex Rienits as drama editor at the ABC. The Seas Between (1946) – radio play starring...
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  • Warwick / Columbia Jazz Boat Feature film (co-written with Ken Hughes and Rex Rienits, 1960) Warwick / Columbia Sykes and a... "Sykes and a Library Book" (1960)...
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