The Squatter's Daughter (1910 film)
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The Squatter's Daughter is a 1910 Australian silent film based on the popular play
The Squatter's Daughter (play)
The Squatter's Daughter or, The Land of the Wattle is a 1907 Australian play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan, writing under the combined pseudonym Albert Edmunds.-Synopsis:...

 by Bert Bailey
Bert Bailey
Albert Edward Bailey , better known as Bert Bailey, was a New Zealand-born writer and actor best known for playing Dad Rudd on stage and screen.-Biography:...

 and Edmund Duggan.

Synopsis

The plot concerns the rivalry between two neighboring sheep stations, Enderby and Waratah. This version includes the subplot about the 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...

 Ben Hall which was not used when the play was adapted again in 1933
The Squatter's Daughter
The Squatter's Daughter is a 1933 Australian melodrama starring Jocelyn Howarth. It is based on a 1907 play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan which had been previously filmed in 1910.-Synopsis:...

.

Production

Filming took place in June 1910 with cast from the acting company of theatre producer William Anderson
William Anderson (theatre)
- External links :* at Australian Dictionary of Biography*...

 at the Kings Theatre Melbourne, many of whom had just appeared in The Man from Outback
The Man from Outback
The Man from Outback is a 1910 Australian play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan written under the name of 'Albert Edmunds'. It is based on the Banjo Patterson poem The Man from Snowy River.-Synopsis:...

, also by Bailey and Duggan. Theatre star Olive Wilton played the lead role, with Bailey and Duggan in support. One of her leading men, George Cross, later became a casting director for Cinesound Productions
Cinesound Productions
Cinesound Productions Pty Ltd was one of Australia's first feature film production companies. Established in June 1932, Cinesound developed out of a group of companies centred around Greater Union Theatres, that covered all facets of the film process, from production, to distribution and...

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Shooting took place in Ivanhoe and other surrounding districts of Melbourne entirely outdoors, even interior scenes. "Under these circumstances brilliant sunshine was the main factor to be wooed," recalled Olive Wilston. "It seemed impossible to acquire sufficient light without a constant battle against high wind, which made these interior scenes a nightmare, with hair and clothes blowing in all directions."

Reception

The movie was a popular success at the box office and achieved a cinema release in England, one of the first Australian films to do so. Bert Bailey and Ken G. Hall
Ken G. Hall
Kenneth George Hall, AO OBE , better known as Ken G. Hall, was an Australian film director, considered one of the most important figures in the history of the Australian film industry.-Early years:...

 tried to track down a copy of the movie when Hall directed a version in 1933 but was unsuccessful. No known copies of it exist today, and it is considered a lost film
Lost film
A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

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Cast

  • Olive Wilton as Violet Enderby
  • Bert Bailey
    Bert Bailey
    Albert Edward Bailey , better known as Bert Bailey, was a New Zealand-born writer and actor best known for playing Dad Rudd on stage and screen.-Biography:...

     as Archie McPherson
  • Edmund Duggan as Ben Hall
  • J.H. Nunn as James Harrington
  • Rutland Beckett as Dudley Harrington
  • George Cross as Tom Bathurst
  • George Mackenzie as Nick Harvey
  • Temple Harrison as Nulla Nulla
  • Edwin Campbell as Billy
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