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Brunswick and Coburg Leader, 17 December 1915, p.2
form y separately published work icon For Australia single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 1915... 1915 For Australia
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'For Australia, directed for JC Williamson’s by Monte Luke, is a melodrama about a newspaper reporter captured by a German spy ring and taken to a secret island, where he is saved by a native girl and the Sydney.'

Source: Australian Screen. (Sighted: 9/7/2014)

Exhibitions

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Notes

  • Usually shown in conjunction with How We Beat the Emden (or The Sydney-Emden Fight): the two films were later edited together for release in Britain as For the Honour of Australia (see Australian Screen).

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Related Works

form y separately published work icon For the Honour of Australia ( dir. Monte Luke et. al. )agent Australia : J. C. Williamson's Ltd Australasian Films , 1916 7570596 1916 single work film/TV

For the Honour of Australia was made for British audiences, by compiling footage from two films (For Australia and How We Beat the Emden) and constructing a new over-arching narrative that presented the protagonists of the two entirely separate films as brothers, living out asynchronous war experiences that only briefly overlap.

Australian Screen Online (see link below) points out that the two films were made by rival companies (J.C. Williamson's and Australasian Films), and there is no current information on who spliced the two films into this new release.
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Monte Luke
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