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The first historical photo play produced in Sydney, and the result is very creditable. Mr. Arthur Wright... has weaved in a story of love and adventure, and has done the work very well. The play is full of life, and, considering the large number of people who figure in the action simultaneously, the
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In 1854, a young farmer, Stanley Gifford, leaves his girlfriend Violet in England and goes to seek his fortune in the goldfields. Stanley's letters to Violet are intercepted by the villainous Pellew Owen. Violet's father, Major Howard, is blackmailed by Pellew Owen into giving him Violet's hand in
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Pellew tires of Violet and abandons her, so she goes with her father to Ballarat to find Stanley. Her father dies of exhaustion and Violet is kidnapped by Pellew after interrupting a bank robbery. She is rescued by police and Pellew is arrested, but set free after he agrees to be a police spy.
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said that "while free use is made of a love romance to point a moral and adorn a tale, the most realistic of the scenes are those showing the rising of the miners on the Ballarat goldfield of 1854 and the fierce fight behind the stockade."
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takes place in which a miner is killed, Bentley acquitted, and the hotel burnt down. Miners take refuge in the Eureka Stockade and Pellew is killed. Stanley is wounded, but he manages to escape with Violet and they are united.
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Arthur Wright says that director Alfired Rolfe "made a fine job of it, judged on the standard of the day, but though it was a good effort it did not pull big business. The title was against it for one thing."
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Vagg, S., & Reynaud, D. (2016). Alfred Rolfe: Forgotten pioneer Australian film director. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 10(2),184-198. doi:10.1080/17503175.2016.1170950
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Arthur Wright later published a short story under the same title. However the contents of the story appear to be different from the plot of the book.
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Most of the cast came from the stage, including Reynolds Denniston, who was a well-known theatre star.
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marriage after Howard shoots a man in a quarrel over cards.
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The film used some of the original records stored in the
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The movie was filmed on location near Sydney and in the
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called it "a first-class Eureka Stockade production."
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Index


Alfred Rolfe
Arthur Wright
Australasian Films
Silent film
Alfred Rolfe
Eureka Rebellion
lost film
Eureka rebellion
Charles Villiers
Peter Lalor
Arthur Wright
Australasian Films
Rushcutters Bay studio
Mitchell Library
"Advertising"
The Sydney Morning Herald
"Advertising"
The Barrier Miner


"Classified Advertising"
The Argus
"IMPERIAL PICTURES"
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate


"FILM FANCIES"
The Sunday Times
"ALNG FILMROW"

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