| 词条 | Within the Law (1916 film) |
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| name = Within the Law | image = Within_the_Law.jpg | image size = | caption = Still from the movie | director = Monte Luke assistant: W.J. Lincoln | producer = | writer = W. J. Lincoln | based on = play by Bayard Veiller | narrator = | starring = Muriel Starr Monte Luke | music = | cinematography = Maurice Bertel | editing = | studio = J.C. Williamson Ltd | released = 10 January 1916 (Melbourne)[1] | runtime = Four reels[2] (4,000 feet[3] – est. 60 mins | country = Australia | language = Silent English intertitles | budget = | preceded by = | followed by = }} Within the Law is a 1916 Australian silent film based a play of the same name by Bayard Veiller. The leading role was played by American stage star Muriel Starr, reprising her stage performance. It is considered a lost film. PlotShopgirl Mary Turner (Muriel Starr) is wrongly accused of theft due to her employer, powerful businessman Edward Guilder, and is sent to prison. On her release she joins forces with another woman and executes a series of scams by securing money from wealthy men with breach of promise suits. She targets Dick Guilder, her enemy's son, but finds herself falling in love with him. Dick is framed for an underworld killing but this is solved. Mary is cleared of her original crime and realises she loves Dick.[4] Cast
DevelopmentThe film is based on a popular play which was later filmed in 1917, 1923, 1930 and 1939. Muriel Starr came to Australia in 1913 to perform in the play for J.C. Williamson Ltd, and was a great success with the local public, running for over three months in Melbourne.[5]It was the fourth film shot at J.C. Williamson Studios, though the second released.[6] ProductionThe film version was shot primary on the stage of the Theatre Royal in Melbourne.[6] W.J. Lincoln worked on the script and assisted Monte Luke with direction.[7][8] Filming was completed by September 1915.[3] Muriel Starr would shoot the film in the morning while rehearsing another play, Under Cover, in the afternoon and acting in yet another play, The Law of the Land, that night.[9] While most of the film was shot in the studio, there was some location shooting including at Buckley and Nunn's store in Bourke Street.[10] There is no published cast list for the film but a short revival of the play was held at Theatre Royal in Melbourne six weeks after the film had been shot.[11][12] It is likely that most of the cast members would have repeated their stage roles on screen.[10] Cast of revival
ReceptionThe movie was not received well at the box office.[6] However film historian Ralph Marsden later wrote that "of for four stage adaptations filmed by the JCW Studio it seems likely that Within the Law was the best".[10] It was also released before Get Rich Quick Wallingford and Officer 666, even though those two films were filmed earlier. Muriel Starr continued to appear in revivals of the play throughout her career. After the film was completed, it was announced Lincoln was writing another movie for Starr directed by Luke, but this does not appear to have been made.[3] References1. ^Mary Bateman, 'W.J. Lincoln', Cinema Papers, June–July 1980 p 214 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75028231 |title=MINERS PICTURES. |newspaper=Ararat Advertiser |location=Vic. |date=3 February 1916 |accessdate=15 April 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155527305 |title=THE PICTURE SHOWS. |newspaper=Winner |location=Melbourne |date=8 September 1915 |accessdate=26 October 2014 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75028303 |title="WITHIN THE LAW.". |newspaper=Ararat Advertiser |location=Vic. |date=5 February 1916 |accessdate=15 April 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5797412 |title=AMUSEMENTS. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=16 August 1913 |accessdate=15 April 2012 |page=22 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 6. ^1 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 58 7. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1086398 |title=MUSIC AND DRAMA. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=4 September 1917 |accessdate=8 September 2013 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 8. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155527305 |title=THE PICTURE SHOWS. |newspaper=Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917) |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=8 September 1915 |accessdate=18 June 2015 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 9. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138701246 |title=GREENROOM GOSSIP. |newspaper=Punch |location=Melbourne |date=2 September 1915 |accessdate=15 November 2014 |page=42 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 10. ^1 2 3 Marsden, Ralph. 'The Old Tin Shed in Exhibition Street': The J.C. Williamson Studio, Melbourne's Forgotten Film Factory [online]. Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine, No. 157, 2008: 144-153. Availability: 11. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154920379 |title=AMUSEMENTS. |newspaper=The Age |location=Melbourne |date=25 October 1915 |accessdate=15 November 2014 |page=12 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 12. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138702471 |title=THE PLAYGOER. |newspaper=Punch |location=Melbourne |date=28 October 1915 |accessdate=15 November 2014 |page=40 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 13. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90192095 |title=DRAMATIC NOTES. |newspaper=The Leader |location=Melbourne |date=30 October 1915 |accessdate=15 November 2014 |page=35 Edition: WEEKLY |publisher=National Library of Australia}} External links
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