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Advertisement, Gundagai Independent, 5 October 1910, p.3
Adaptation of
The Squatter's Daughter, or, The Land of the Wattle
1907
single work
drama
Issue Details:
First known date:
1910...
1910
The Squatter's Daughter
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Film Details - William Anderson , 1910
Producers:
William Anderson
Production Companies:
William Anderson
Director of Photography:
Oriie Perry
Cast:
Incl. Olive Wilton (Violet Enderby); Bert Bailey (Archie McPherson); Edmund Duggan (Ben Hall); J.H. Nunn (James Harrington); Rutland Beckett (Dudley Harrington); George Cross (Tom Bathurst); George Mackenzie (Nick Harvey); Templeton Harrison (Nulla Nulla); Edwin Campbell (Billy); Max Clifton (Jim S. Kenit); Kathleen Lorimer .(Biddy); Fanny Erris (Jenny Thornton); Lily Bryer (Virginia Spraggins); Florence Ritcher (Sarah Lynch); Fred Kehoe, W. Chainey, C. Rossmore (Members of Ben Hall's Gang).
Release Dates:
4 August 1910 (Colac, Victoria - premiere). The film was exhibited in several other rural centres before opening at the Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne on 29 October 1910. It first screened in Sydney at the Olympia Theatre (open-air) on 5 November 1910.
Location:
- Filmed on location near Melbourne, Victoria.
Notes:
1. Costing around £1,000 to produce, this film was the first of several adaptations of the Bert Bailey/Edmund Duggan (aka Albert Edmunds, q.v.) melodrama. The star, English actress Olive Wilton, had been brought to Australia in 1910 by William Anderson for his dramatic company. Many other members of the company also formed part of the film's cast.
2. The play on which the film is based had been staged on numerous occasions by William Anderson's company since its 1907 debut. That production starred Bert Bailey as the new chum/hero Archie while Edmund Duggan played the bushranger Ben Hall.
3. The Squatter's Daughter was billed as the 'Longest Picture Ever Filmed.' In its review of the Sydney season, the Bulletin magazine suggested that the film had enough horses and girls in it to 'appeal to crowded houses six nights a week' (17 Nov. 1910, n. pag.).
4. Further reference: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Australian Film 1900-1977, A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980, q.v.), pp. 13-14
Subjects:
- Bush,
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
- ca. 1900-1910
