The Gentleman Bushranger
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The Gentleman Bushranger is a 1921 Australian film melodrama from director Beaumont Smith
. Bushranging films were banned at the time but Smith got around this by making the plot about a man falsely accused of being a bushranger
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Beaumont Smith
Frank Beaumont Smith , was an Australian film director, producer and exhibitor, best known for making low-budget comedies. After a career in theatre production, including managing a midget circus, he made his first film in 1917, Our Friends, the Hayseeds. He went on to become one of the most...
. Bushranging films were banned at the time but Smith got around this by making the plot about a man falsely accused of being a bushranger
Bushranger
Bushrangers, or bush rangers, originally referred to runaway convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities...
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Cast
- Dot McConville
- Ernest T Hearne
- Tal OrdellTal OrdellTalone Ordell , better known as Tal Ordel, was an Australian actor, writer and director. He worked extensively on stage and screen as an actor in the 1910s and 1920s, playing Dad Rudd twice for Raymond Longford and Dad Hayseed - a similar role - three times for Beaumont Smith. He turned director...
- John Cosgrove
- Henry LawsonHenry LawsonHenry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest writer"...
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External links
- Gentleman Bushranger in the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...