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词条 All for Gold, or Jumping the Claim
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  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Production

  4. References

  5. External links

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| director = Franklyn Barrett
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| studio = West's Pictures
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| released = 9 October 1911
| runtime = 3,000 feet[1]
| country = Australia
| language = Silent film
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}}All for Gold, or Jumping the Claim is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Franklyn Barrett. Only a few frames of the film survive.[2]

It was also known as Quest for Gold.[3]

Plot

Englishman Jack Cardigan (Herbert J. Bentley) strikes gold and writes a letter to his girlfriend, Nora (Lilian Teece), to tell her of the news. He gives the letter to a friend, Ralph Blackstone (Hilliard Vox) who poisons Cardigan's drink, throws his body in the river and takes over his claim.

However, when in Sydney, he accidentally allows the letter to come into Nora's possession and she decides to investigate. While Blackstone goes back to the mine by train, she tries to beat him there by taking a speedboat across Sydney harbour, then driving a fast car. She arrives to find Cardigan still alive and recovering. Cardigan gets his claim back and is reunited with Nora.

Cast

  • Herbert J. Bentley as Jack Cardigan
  • Hilliard Vox as Ralph Blackstone
  • Lilian Teece as Nora Fraser
  • Ronald McLeod as Bert Fraser
  • E. Melville as warden
  • Walter Bastin as Jim Carey

Production

In 1911, the newly established West's Pictures wanted to get into feature production. They offered a £25 prize for a story about Australian life best suited for screen adaptation; bushranging themes were barred.[4] Over 200 entries were received and the winner was stage comedian W.S. Percy for this script.[5]

The car chase scene was shot near Springwood in the Blue Mountains. Lilian Teece had to drive a car alongside the passing of a fast train. The train arrived an hour earlier than scheduled and Teece had to chase after it. "Passengers craned their heads through the windows and urged the driver of the train not to be beaten by a woman", said a contemporary newspaper report. Teece got in front of the train just before the train disappeared in a cutting. "If I had not passed him before I passed the camera I would have followed him to Bathurst", said Teece.[6]

The movie featured an early example of split-screen technology, with one scene showing Nora making a phone call, a boatman receiving the call, and Sydney harbour in between.[5]

References

1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article69671291 |title=ROYAL PICTURES. |newspaper=Williamstown Chronicle |location=Vic. |date=11 November 1911 |accessdate=9 April 2012 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
2. ^All for Gold, or Jumping the Claim at National Film and Sound Archive
3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article176321051 |title=WEST'S PICTURES. |newspaper=The Telegraph |location=Brisbane |date=8 November 1911 |accessdate=17 May 2015 |page=8|edition=SECOND EDITION|via=National Library of Australia}}
4. ^Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 p 39
5. ^Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 26
6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5315063 |title=GENERAL NEWS. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=22 September 1911 |access-date=9 April 2012 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0204803}}
{{Franklyn Barrett}}

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