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The Colleen Bawn (1911 Australian film)

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1911 Australian film
The Colleen Bawn
Directed byGaston Mervale
Based onplay by Dion Boucicault
StarringLouise Carbasse
Production
company		Australian Life Biograph Company
Release date
  • 25 September 1911 (1911-09-25) (Melbourne)
Running time4,000 feet
CountryAustralia
Languages

The Colleen Bawn is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Gaston Mervale starring Louise Lovely. It is adapted from a popular melodrama by Dion Boucicault.

It is considered a lost film.

Plot

Hardess Cregan is an impoverished Irish aristocrat whose mother wants him to marry Anne Chute, an heiress, in order to restore the family fortunes. However he falls in love and marries a peasant girl, Eily O'Connor (Louise Lovely). Hardess' servant Danny (James Martin) tries to murder the girl but she is rescued by a villager and hidden away. Thinking she is dead, Hardess is about to marry Anne and is about to be arrested for Eily's murder when she reappears. Hardress is released, Eily is accepted by Mrs Cregan, Anne and Kyrle are reconciled and Anne offers to pay off the Cregans' debt.

Production

A cliff and a cave on Sydney harbour were used for the scene of the attempted murder and the rescue of the colleen. The rest of the movie was shot in the studio of Australian Life Biograph Company in Manly.

Release

A British version of the same play, shot in Ireland, appeared in cinemas the same year.

Cast

  • Louise Carbasse as Eily O'Connor
  • James Martin as Danny Mann
  • Mervyn Barringont

References

  1. "Advertising". The Referee. Sydney. 22 May 1912. p. 16. Retrieved 14 September 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p24
  3. "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 December 1911. p. 2. Retrieved 27 January 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "VICTORIA Week Ending March 7th.", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 12 March 1924, nla.obj-564346486, retrieved 11 July 2024 – via Trove

External links

Adaptations of Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen
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