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词条 A Girl of the Bush
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Production

  4. Reception

  5. References

  6. External links

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| director = Franklyn Barrett
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| starring = Vera James
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| released = 26 March 1921
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A Girl of the Bush is a 1921 Australian silent film directed by Franklyn Barrett. It is one of the few films from Barrett to survive in its entirety today.

Plot

Lorna Denver manages Kangaroo Flat sheep station and is pursued by two men, evil Oswald and handsome young surveyor, Tom Wilson.

Lorna gives shelter to a baby that has survived an attack by aboriginals, but Tom thinks the baby is hers. This upsets Lorna who breaks it off with him.

Oswald is murdered and Tom is arrested. A Chinese cook reveals that the real killer was the father of a woman who had been seduced by Oswald.

Cast

  • Vera James as Lorna Denver
  • Jack Martin as Tom Wilson
  • Herbert Linden as Oswald Keane
  • Stella Southern as Grace Girton
  • James Martin as John Burns
  • Sam Warr as Sing Lee
  • Emma Shea as Looe Toe
  • D. L. Dalziel as James Keane
  • Gerald Harcourt as Reg Howard
  • Olga Broughton as Mary Burns
  • Mick Huntsdale as Bill Tresle
  • Tom Cosgrove as Bill's mate

Production

The script was heavily influenced by the plays The Squatter's Daughter and On Our Selection.[3]

This was the first of three films Barrett made for his own company.[4] Shooting began in October 1920 at the Fremantle Station near Bathurst.[5]

Reception

The film was widely distributed and appears to have been a success at the box office.[3]

Vera James' father bought the rights to distribute the film in New Zealand.[6]

References

1. ^Copyright registration details at National Archives of Australia
2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4696234 |title=Classified Advertising. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=8 July 1921 |accessdate=8 May 2012 |page=14 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
3. ^Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 105.
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20491738 |title=THE WORLD OF PICTURES. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=26 March 1921 |accessdate=8 May 2012 |page=12 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123246958 |title=Australian Production. |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=Sydney |date=1 May 1921 |accessdate=10 December 2014 |page=22 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123248180 |title=New York Goes to Bed. |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=Sydney |date=17 April 1921 |accessdate=4 October 2014 |page=22 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0012219}}
  • A Girl of the Bush{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at the National Film and Sound Archive
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120331194423/http://www.pleasantfluff.com/2009/07/30/a-girl-of-the-bush/ A Girl of the Bush: Representations of Rural Women in Australian Silent and Early Sound Film by Anna Gardner]
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