The Swagman's Story
1914 Australian film
- 2 March 1914 (1914-03-02)[1]
Running time
- Silent film
- English intertitles
The Swagman's Story is a 1914 short film directed by Raymond Longford. Although considered a lost film, it is likely that it was a low-budget support feature.[3]
Plot
A swagman arrives on the scene of the breakdown of a motor car and tells the honeymooning drivers that he's never liked motor cars as they've never done him any good. He then goes on to explain why – ten years earlier he was living happily with his wife and pretty daughter (Lottie Lyell). Then the daughter marries a "swell city cove" and she becomes a member of the high society set, refusing to meet her unsophisticated mother. The mother is killed by a motor car and the father takes to drinking and becomes a swagman.[4]
Cast
- Lottie Lyell
- J Martin
- C Stevenson
- G Corti
References
- ^ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
- ^ "MOVING PICTURES". The Referee. Sydney. 15 April 1914. p. 15. Retrieved 1 September 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 46
- ^ "PRINCESS COURT THEATRE". The Morning Bulletin. Rockhampton, Qld. 13 November 1916. p. 4. Retrieved 15 January 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
- The Swagman's Story at IMDb
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Films directed by Raymond Longford
- The Fatal Wedding (1911)
- The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1911)
- Sweet Nell of Old Drury (1911)
- The Tide of Death (1912)
- The Midnight Wedding (1912)
- Australia Calls (1913)
- Pommy Arrives in Australia (1913)
- 'Neath Austral Skies (1913)
- The Silence of Dean Maitland (1914)
- The Swagman's Story (1914)
- Taking his Chance (1914) (short)
- Trooper Campbell (1914) (short)
- We'll Take Her Children in Amongst Our Own (1915) (short)
- Ma Hogan's New Boarder (1915) (short)
- The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916)
- A Maori Maid's Love (1916)
- The Church and the Woman (1917)
- The Woman Suffers (1918)
- The Sentimental Bloke (1919)
- On Our Selection (1920)
- Ginger Mick (1920)
- Rudd's New Selection (1921)
- The Blue Mountains Mystery (1921)
- The Dinkum Bloke (1923)
- Australia Calls (1923)
- An Australian by Marriage (1923)
- Fisher's Ghost (1924)
- The Bushwhackers (1925)
- Peter Vernon's Silence (1926)
- The Pioneers (1926)
- Sunrise (1926)
- Hills of Hate (1926)
- The Hayseeds (1933) (asst director)
- Splendid Fellows (1934) (asst director)
- The Man They Could Not Hang (1934)
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