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An almost complete list of Australian films produced during the Silent era
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- DirectorHerbert BoothJoseph PerryStarsBeatrice DayHarold GrahamMr. GrahamThe plot outlined the story of the early Christian martyrs with a compendium of horrors guaranteed to jolt audiences into an awareness of terrible suffering for the sake of Christianity. Contained maulings at the Colosseum, crucifixions, beheadings, savage hackings and burnings at the stake, burnings in the limepit, the spectacle of human torches in Nero's garden. Overall "soul stirring stories of the martyrs, illustrated by the most beautiful living pictures by kinematograph and limelight and never before witnessed in this or any other country.
- DirectorCharles TaitStarsElizabeth TaitJohn TaitNicholas BrierleyOriginally 70 minutes in running time, only 17 minutes of the world's first full-length narrative feature film survived in stills and other fragments and tell the story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw.
- DirectorCharles MacMahonStarsJim GeraldGeorge MerrimanLance Vane
- DirectorArthur CornwallGeorge Cornwell
- DirectorCharles MacMahonStarsMartyn KeithRosie Knight PhillipsMrs. Barry Lane(England) The tragedy of Hampstead Heath. (The High Seas) The convict ship- Meeting on the "Malabar," The burning of the "Hydaspes." (Tasmania) The convict days at Port Arthur- Sylvia and "Good Mr. Dawes."- The Quarries- Ri-tooral-i-lay. (Norfolk Island) The government skin boat- Rescue of the castaways, Etc., Etc.
- DirectorBert BaileyStarsOlive WiltonBert BaileyEdmund DugganThe plot concerns the rivalry between two neighboring sheep stations, Enderby and Waratah. This version includes the subplot about the bushranger Ben Hall.
- DirectorJack GavinStarsJack GavinRuby ButlerH.A. ForsythFrederick Ward is accused of cattle theft and sent to Cockatoo island for seven years. After he escapes he finds that his fiancée has died of grief. For revenge he undertakes a life of crime.
- DirectorJack GavinStarsJack GavinH.A. ForsythRuby Butler
- DirectorW.J. LincolnStarsStanley Walpole
- DirectorJack GavinStarsAgnes GavinJack Gavin
- DirectorAlfred RolfeStarsAlfred RolfeLily DampierRaymond LongfordEdgar Dalmore, an impulsive youth, quarrels with his father, and in the heat of anger is disowned. Edgar's cousin, Vincent Lennox, is hard pressed for money, owing to his gambling proclivities. With aid of his friend, John Sterling, he beats Edgar's father into insensibility, robs the safe and accuses Edgar of having committed the crime. The father dies, and Edgar is sentenced to prison for life. At the end of six months, Edgar escapes from prison. As an escaped convict, he is welcomed into the Hellville band of bushrangers, made their captain, and called "Captain Midnight." He leads his band on several daring adventures, including an attack on and robbery of the government gold coach. After a thrilling chase by the bandits, the escort of the coach are overpowered and the chest of gold stolen. The mounted police chase Edgar and his band, and Edgar is separated from the bushrangers. Edgar meets his sweetheart, Thelma, who prevails upon him to renounce his bushranger connections. Elsa Harling, who is in love with Edgar, but whose love is not returned, sees Edgar with his sweetheart. She decides to turn Edgar over to the police and lays a plan for his capture. Edgar visits her at her father's cabin in the forest. The police surround the cabin. Elsa relents at the last moment, and helps Edgar to escape by cutting a hole in the back of the hut, thus eluding the police. Another exciting chase follows, during which Edgar has to swim across a river. Elsa overhears Vincent Lennox and his friend Sterling quarreling about the division of the money they have stolen after murdering Edgar's father. Her presence is discovered. She is seized by Lennox and Sterling, and tied to a tree. Lennox bargains with one of the bushrangers to do away with Elsa. Edgar, in his flight from the police, discovers Elsa tied to the tree, rescues her and in a thrilling scene he and Elsa overcome the two bushrangers and escape. Elsa notifies the police of the guilt of Lennox and Sterling, and the police start on the trail of the criminals. Edgar decides to cross the border and to live an honest life. He marries Thelma, and as they are coming out of the church they are seized by Lennox and Sterling and their followers, but Elsa arrives with the police in time to save Edgar and his wife. The stolen notes are found on Lennox, and he and Sterling are arrested for the murder. Through Elsa's noble sacrifice, Edgar is free to join his bride.
- DirectorJack GavinStarsJack Gavin
- DirectorW.J. LincolnStarsWalter DalgleishA Melbourne playboy, Oliver White, is murdered as he is driven home one night in a hansom cab. Investigating the crime encompasses all aspects of Melbourne society.
- DirectorAlfred RolfeStarsLily DampierLottie LyellAugustus Neville
- DirectorW.J. LincolnStarsJohn CosgroveEthel BuckleyRobert InmanThe setting is California during the California Gold Rush. On the California goldfields, Will Gordin is falsely accused of murder and is about to be lynched when his girlfriend rides to the rescue.
- DirectorGeorge Young
- DirectorE.J. ColeStarsE.J. Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company
- DirectorJack GavinStarsAgnes GavinJack GavinSid Harrison
- DirectorGeorge Young
- DirectorW.J. LincolnStarsArthur Styan
- DirectorE.J. ColeStarsE.J. Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company
- DirectorJack GavinStarsJack GavinAgnes GavinAlf Scarlett