| 词条 | It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1911 film) |
| 释义 |
| name = It Is Never Too Late to Mend | image = | caption = | director = W. J. Lincoln[1] | producer = John Tait Nevin Tait Millard Johnson William Gibson | writer = W. J. Lincoln[2] | based on = the novel by Charles Reade adapted into a play by Charles Reade | starring = Stanley Walpole | music = | cinematography = Orrie Perry[3] | editing = |studio = Johnson and Gibson | distributor = J & N Tait (Australia) Sawyer's Pictures (USA) | released = 7 January 1911 (Sydney)[4] August 1914 (USA)[5] | runtime = 4,000 feet[6] | language = Silent film English intertitles | country = Australia | budget = £300-£400[7]It Is Never Too Late to Mend is an Australian feature-length film directed by W. J. Lincoln. It was based on a stage adaptation of the popular 1865 novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade about convict Australia. The novel has been credited with exposing cruelties in the Australian prison system and having helped end the convict system.[8] It is considered a lost film. PlotThe film begins at Grance Farm in England, rented by Georgie and William Fileing. The farm is struggling and the brothers have to sell their new hay to stave off the landlord. The Honorable Frank Winchester contemplates going abroad and asks George to accompany him. However George is in love with his cousin, Susan Merton, and does not want to make the trip. Susan is also loved by the villainous John Meadows. He refuses to lend money to Georgie and there is an eviction sale on the farm.[9] George Fielding travels to Australia to make enough money to marry Susan. George discovers gold and a bushranger gang tries to rob him but the other miners come to George's rescue. There is a subplot about a thief acquaintance of George, Tom Robinson, who is sent to gaol and suffers brutal treatment at the hands of the guards. Susan is about to marry the evil Meadows but he is unmasked at the wedding by Isaac Levy. The wedding goes ahead with Susan marrying George instead. The film consisted of 60 scenes.[10] It was issued with a summary of the story and featured chapter titles which prepared the audiences for incidents before they happened.[11] It was also often accompanied by a lecturer. According to The Age "Interesting phases of early Australian life are revealed, including the fascinating stories of the gold discoveries... in the construction of the story for picture purposes, the salient features of the novel have been retained and a descriptive address accompanies the production."[12] Cast
ProductionStage adaptations of the novel had been popular since 1865.[15] The film was shot in Melbourne and "enacted by a specially-selected company of Victorian artists"[16] who were "a selected metropolitan company of 60 performers."[10] ReceptionBox OfficeThe movie debuted at the Olympia Theatre in Haymarket, Sydney in January 1911.[17] A lecturer accompanied screenings and would explain the action that took place. The movie broke box office records at the Olympia.[18][19] It later drew strong crowds in Melbourne as well.[21][20] CriticalThe Bulletin called it: An interesting piece... adapted by W.J. Lincoln for dumb show purposes, and Johnson and Gibson had prepared three or four thousand feet of photographs for reproduction on the screen. The picture promised well for the future of the Australian “art film” industry. Theadapter has “potted” the novel, rather than the drama of the same name, and done it very well. The actors look their parts and play them dramatically, and the heroine, who is a first consideration and the only girl in the piece, fills the bill quite charmingly. For about an hour “It’s Never Too Late To Mend ” kept a packed house interested. A man with a ripe, sonorous voice supplied brief descriptive details, and kept the story in a state of coherency, the only noticeable shortcoming being the absence of a moral tag, to the effect that the conversion of the English thief, Tom Robinson, had been fully completed in The Sunny South.[21] The Sydney Sunday Times said there "was special performances by a company of Australian actors."[22] Melbourne's Table Talk called it "a most gratifying success in all ways. The pictures are clear and the acting is adequate, while to our ideas it is more natural, for it has not the Gallic mannerisms and excessive gesture noticeable in some of the imported pictorial dramas, which are usually interpreted by French artists."[23] The Riverine Herald stated "the cast was well chosen and well balanced, and the dramatic action of the play was finely brought out."[24] The Launceston Examiner said "in its construction the adapter has endeavoured to retain all the main and most salient features of the novel, allowing for the bridging over of many incidents, to make a natural sequence and clear-cut story."[25] The Launceston Daily Telegraph said the novel had been "exceedingly well adapted by W. J. Lincoln... [a] magnificent pictorial representation, so full of strong human interest".[26] USA ReleaseThe film was released in the USA in August 1914.[5] LegacyThe box office success of the film encouraged the Tait brothers and Millard and Johnson to appoint Lincoln as the main director for their new company, Amalgamated Pictures, which operated for over a year.[27] References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105217455 |title=PORT EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. |newspaper=Daily Herald |location=Adelaide |date=20 February 1912 |accessdate=18 June 2015 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15236236 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=21 January 1911 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18490799 |title=OUR FILM JUBILEE. |newspaper=The Sunday Herald |location=Sydney |date=9 September 1951 |accessdate=26 October 2014 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^Mary Bateman, 'W. J. Lincoln', Cinema Papers, June–July 1980 p 174 5. ^1 http://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/movingpicturewor21newy_0545 6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50475674 |title=AMUSEMENTS. |newspaper=The Examiner |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=20 May 1911 |accessdate=12 January 2012 |page=9|edition=DAILY |via=National Library of Australia}} 7. ^{{Citation | | title=The bulletin | publication-date=1880 | publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-617589020 | accessdate=14 March 2019}} 8. ^'POWERFUL BOOKS. And the Miracles They Performed.' Camperdown Chronicle, Tuesday 20 February 1934 p 3 9. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article227804633 |title="NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND." |newspaper=The Bendigo Independent |issue=12533 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=25 February 1911 |accessdate=8 March 2017 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} 10. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74842849 |title=THE Mildura 'Cultibator.'. |newspaper=The Mildura Cultivator |location=Vic. |date=22 July 1911 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} 11. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74842899 |title=Wonderland Pictures. |newspaper=The Mildura Cultivator |location=Vic. |date=29 July 1911 |accessdate=28 January 2012 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}} 12. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196175241 |title=AUSTRALIAN MADE PICTURES. |newspaper=The Age |location=Melbourne |date=20 February 1911 |accessdate=27 July 2015 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}} 13. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50339346 |title=LIFE & LETTERS. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=4 May 1946 |accessdate=16 September 2013 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} 14. ^{{Citation | | title=Everyones | publication-date=1920 | publisher=Everyones Ltd | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-565243554 | accessdate=14 March 2019}} 15. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13153963 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=20 August 1867 |accessdate=6 December 2012 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} 16. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89836860 |title=TIVOLI THEATRE. |newspaper=Bendigo Advertiser |location=Vic. |date=27 February 1911 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} 17. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15216876 |title=OLYMPIA THEATRE. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=9 January 1911 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} 18. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15244005 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=10 January 1911 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} 19. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15218233 |title=OLYMPIA THEATRE. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=14 January 1911 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}} 20. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196175044 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Age |location=Melbourne |date=20 February 1911 |accessdate=23 September 2015 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} 21. ^{{Citation | | title=The bulletin | publication-date=1880 | publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-676490432 | accessdate=14 March 2019}} 22. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120788276 |title=THE OLYMPIA. |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=Sydney |date=8 January 1911 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 23. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146587895 |title=TAIT'S PICTURES. |newspaper=Table Talk |location=Melbourne |date=23 February 1911 |accessdate=1 July 2015 |page=21 |via=National Library of Australia}} 24. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114920267 |title=The Riverine Herald. |newspaper=Riverine Herald |location=Echuca, Vic. |date=27 April 1911 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 25. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50475674 |title=AMUSEMENTS. |newspaper=The Examiner |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=20 May 1911 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=9|edition=DAILY|via=National Library of Australia}} 26. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article152380234 |title=MUSIC, ART, AND DRAMA. |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=24 February 1911 |accessdate=25 October 2014 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} 27. ^Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press, 1989, p42 External links
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