Oxford Australian film, 1900-1977
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1. Soldiers of the Cross (1900)
40 min | Short, Biography, Drama
The 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. ... See full summary »
Directors: Herbert Booth, Joseph Perry | Stars: Beatrice Day, Harold Graham, Mr. Graham, John Jones
Votes: 57
2. The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
Not Rated | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Originally 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.
Director: Charles Tait | Stars: Elizabeth Tait, John Tait, Nicholas Brierley, Norman Campbell
Votes: 894
3. Robbery Under Arms (1907)
Drama
Director: Charles MacMahon | Stars: Jim Gerald, George Merriman, Lance Vane, William Duff
Votes: 25
5. For the Term of His Natural Life (1908)
22 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Director: Charles MacMahon | Stars: Martyn Keith, Rosie Knight Phillips, Mrs. Barry Lane, Frank Kenny
6. The Life and Adventures of John Vane, the Australian Bushranger (1910)
Drama
Director: S.A. Fitzgerald | Stars: Max Clifton, Jim Gerald, Lance Vane
Votes: 17
7. The Squatter's Daughter (1910)
66 min | Drama
The plot concerns the rivalry between two neighboring sheep stations, Enderby and Waratah. This version includes the subplot about the bushranger Ben Hall.
Director: Bert Bailey | Stars: Olive Wilton, Bert Bailey, Edmund Duggan, J.H. Nunn
Votes: 23
8. Thunderbolt (1910)
33 min | Short, Drama
Frederick 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.
Director: Jack Gavin | Stars: Jack Gavin, Ruby Butler, H.A. Forsyth
Votes: 55
9. Moonlite (1910)
42 min | Short
Director: Jack Gavin | Stars: Jack Gavin, H.A. Forsyth, Ruby Butler, Agnes Gavin
10. It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1911)
Drama
Director: W.J. Lincoln | Star: Stanley Walpole
Votes: 17
11. Ben Hall and His Gang (1911)
33 min | Short
Director: Jack Gavin | Stars: Agnes Gavin, Jack Gavin
12. The Bushranger's Bride (1911)
Drama
Edgar 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Rolfe | Stars: Alfred Rolfe, Lily Dampier, Raymond Longford, Lottie Lyell
Votes: 18
14. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1911)
A 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.
Director: W.J. Lincoln | Star: Walter Dalgleish
Votes: 13
15. Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road (1911)
Director: Alfred Rolfe | Stars: Lily Dampier, Lottie Lyell, Augustus Neville, Alfred Rolfe
Votes: 15
16. A Tale of the Australian Bush (1911)
Drama
Director: Gaston Mervale | Stars: A.J. Patrick, Godfrey Cass, Harry Beaumont, James Martin
17. The Luck of Roaring Camp (1911)
48 min | Western
The 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.
Director: W.J. Lincoln | Stars: John Cosgrove, Ethel Buckley, Robert Inman
Votes: 16
19. Bushranger's Ransom, or A Ride for Life (1911)
Director: E.J. Cole | Star: E.J. Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company
Votes: 15
20. The Assigned Servant (1911)
44 min | Short
Director: Jack Gavin | Stars: Agnes Gavin, Jack Gavin, Sid Harrison, Dore Kurtz
23. The Squatter's Son (1911)
Director: E.J. Cole | Star: E.J. Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company
Votes: 15
24. The Fatal Wedding (1911)
Drama
Director: Raymond Longford | Stars: Master Anson, Miss Clare, Tom Cosgrove, George D. Ellis
25. Keane of Kalgoorlie (1911)
Short, Drama, Thriller
Director: Jack Gavin | Stars: Jack Gavin, Agnes Gavin, Alf Scarlett
Votes: 12
26. One Hundred Years Ago (1911)
Drama, Thriller
Director: Gaston Mervale | Stars: Louise Lovely, Harrie Ireland, A.J. Patrick, Godfrey Cass
Votes: 17
27. Five of Hearts, or Buffalo Bill's Love Story (1911)
Short, Western
Director: E.J. Cole | Stars: E.J. Cole, E.J. Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company
Votes: 8
30. Sentenced for Life (1911)
Director: E.J. Cole | Star: E.J. Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company
Votes: 9
31. The Convict Hero (1911)
Drama
The story opens in a room in the old Spaniard's Inn at Hempstead Heath, England. Sir Richard Devine has a meeting with Crofton, a man-about-town, who has also been known under the name of ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Rolfe | Stars: Lily Dampier, Raymond Longford, Lottie Lyell
32. A Ticket in Tatts (1911)
Comedy
Director: Gaston Mervale | Stars: A.J. Patrick, Alf Scarlett, Godfrey Cass, James Martin
Votes: 9
33. Attack on the Gold Escort (1911)
52 min | Action, Drama
Nothing got the Aussie adrenalin flowing in the early 1900's than some serious gold-fields drama.
Votes: 25
35. In the Days of '49 (1911)
17 min | Short, Western
Bill hits a rich gold strike and sends for his wife, Edith, to join him. While traveling on the stage, Edith meets and flirts with Jack, an old friend of Bill's. Once they arrive at the ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Nichols, Claire McDowell, Dell Henderson, Dorothy West
Votes: 13
36. Moora Neya, or The Message of the Spear (1911)
Harry Earl is in love with the station owner's daughter. The manager makes advances on her, but Earl beats him up. The overseer urges some Aborigines to kill Earl but one of them, alerts the station men by writing a message on a spear.
Director: Alfred Rolfe | Stars: Ethel Phillips, Charles Villiers, Stanley Walpole
38. The Drover's Sweetheart (1911)
Short, Drama, Thriller
Director: Jack Gavin | Star: Jack Gavin
Votes: 11
39. Queen of the Smugglers (1911)
26 min | Short, Drama
The story opens with a May festival, during which Margaret Carrington is crowned Queen of the May. The rival lovers, a lieutenant in the army and a smuggler chief, meet Margaret, and she is... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Longford | Stars: Lottie Lyell, Raymond Longford, Augustus Neville, Sybil Wilde
Votes: 48
42. The Sundowner (1911)
Drama
Director: E.J. Cole | Stars: Vera Remée, Frank Mills, E.J. Cole's Bohemian Dramatic Company
46. The Colleen Bawn (II) (1911)
An Irishman from an impoverished family could save the family estate by marrying a rich woman, but his heart yearns for his poor true love.
Director: Gaston Mervale | Stars: Louise Lovely, James Martin
Votes: 24
48. What Women Suffer (1911)
Short, Drama, Thriller
Director: Alfred Rolfe | Stars: Alfred Rolfe, Ethel Phillips, Stanley Walpole, Charles Villiers
Votes: 11
50. All for Gold, or Jumping the Claim (1911)
33 min | Short, Drama
Director: Franklyn Barrett | Stars: Walter Bastin, Herbert Bentley, Ronald McLeod, E. Melville
51. Assigned to His Wife (1911)
Drama
Director: Jack Gavin | Stars: Jack Gavin, Agnes Gavin, Carr Austin, J. Harris
56. Driving a Girl to Destruction (1911)
Short, Drama, Thriller
The evil Lucas List has seduced Ruth Wright, and desires her cousin, conservative school teacher Ruby Wright, but she is engaged to Robert Ray, a lieutenant in the merchant marine. List ... See full summary »
Director: George Marlow | Stars: Ethel Buckley, Nellie Ferguson, Louise Hampton, Robert Inman
Votes: 11
57. The Christian (1911)
28 min | Short
Director: Franklyn Barrett | Stars: Bert Bailey, Rutland Beckett, Lillie Bryer, Max Clifton
58. Nell Gwynne (1911)
50 min | Biography, Drama, History
At the opening of the story, Nell Gwynne, a popular English actress, is seen as an orange girl selling her goods in and around the old Drury Theater. While she is bantering, Lady Olivia ... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Longford | Stars: Nellie Stewart, Augustus Neville, Charles Lawrence, Stewart Clyde
Votes: 26
64. Angel of His Dreams (1912)
54 min | Drama
Released only a short time after the Titanic went down, this was cutting-edge drama for its day. The flick itself was a screen adaptation of a play George Marlow himself had produced in ... See full summary »
Director: George Marlow | Stars: Ada Guildford, J. Stanford, H. Twitcham
69. The Octoroon (1912)
Drama
"The Octoroon" tells the late of when In the deep south of 1850's USA, an octoroon is given her freedom by her white father but is later bought as a slave by the evil Jacob McCloskey.
Director: George Young
70. Cooee and the Echo (1912)
Action, Adventure
Director: Alfred Rolfe | Stars: Ethel Phillips, Charles Villiers, Stanley Walpole, Charles Woods
Votes: 24
72. The Mystery of the Black Pearl (1912)
Drama, Thriller
Stars: Cyril Mackay, Sydney Stirling, Leonard Willey, Charles Lawrence
73. Conn, the Shaughraun (1912)
Drama, Thriller
Robert Ffolliott is a young Irish lad who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the greedy Kinchella. Conn the Shaughraun comes ... See full summary »
Director: Gaston Mervale | Star: Louise Lovely
74. Strike (1912)
Drama, Thriller
Director: George Young | Stars: Roland Conway, Casper Middleton
Votes: 11
76. Rip Van Winkle (III) (1912)
Short, Adventure, Drama
Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of ... See full summary »
Director: W.J. Lincoln | Star: Arthur Styan
77. The Eleventh Hour (1912)
Drama
The Eleventh Hour is a 1912 Australian silent film. It is considered a lost film.
Stars: Loris Brown, Charles Lawrence, Cyril Mackay, Irby Marshall
78. The Tide of Death (1912)
Director: Raymond Longford | Stars: Ada Clyde, Olive Cottey, Lois Cumming, D.L. Dalziel
79. The Cheat (1912)
Director: Alfred Rolfe | Stars: Ethel Phillips, Charles Villiers, Stanley Walpole
Votes: 13
82. A Silent Witness (1912)
27 min | Drama, Short, Thriller
Director: Franklyn Barrett | Stars: Charles Lawrence, Cyril Mackay, Irby Marshall
84. The Wreck of the Dunbar or The Yeoman's Wedding (1912)
39 min | Drama, Short, Thriller
Director: Gaston Mervale | Star: Louise Lovely
85. Whose Was the Hand? (1912)
33 min | Drama, Short, Thriller
Director: Alfred Rolfe | Stars: Charles Villiers, Stanley Walpole
86. The Moira, or Mystery of the Bush (1912)
33 min | Drama, Short, Thriller
Director: Alfred Rolfe | Star: Charles Villiers
87. The Ticket of Leave Man (1912)
46 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Gaston Mervale | Star: Louise Lovely
88. The Midnight Wedding (I) (1912)
Drama
Director: Raymond Longford | Stars: J. Barry, D.L. Dalziel, Jack Goodall, Robert Henry
90. The Life Story of John Lee, or The Man They Could Not Hang (1912)
Drama, Thriller
Director: Robert Scott | Stars: Mervyn Barrington, Fred Cope, Robert Henry, Edna Phillips
93. Australia Calls (1913)
Director: Raymond Longford | Stars: William E. Hart, Lottie Lyell, Alfred O'Shea, Frank Phillips
94. A Blue Gum Romance (1913)
20 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Director: Franklyn Barrett | Stars: Tien Hogue, Douglas Lotherington, Tom Middleton
95. The Life of a Jackeroo (1913)
Drama, Thriller
Director: Franklyn Barrett | Stars: Tien Hogue, Tom Middleton, Ruth Wainwright
96. The Bondage of the Bush (1913)
44 min | Drama, Short, Thriller
Director: Charles Woods | Stars: Alfred Bristow, Wilton Power, D.R. Rivenall, Charles Woods
97. Pommy Arrives in Australia (1913)
Comedy
Director: Raymond Longford | Stars: Tom Cosgrove, Lottie Lyell, Tien Hogue, Helen Fergus
98. The Sick Stockrider (1913)
14 min | Short
Director: W.J. Lincoln | Stars: George Bryant, Godfrey Cass, Roy Redgrave, Tom Cannam
99. Moondyne (1913)
The 1913 movie, 'Moondyne', one of the very first made using a sound stage in Melbourne, Australia, was adapted from the novel of the same name authored by John Boyle O'Reilly and published... See full summary »
Director: W.J. Lincoln | Stars: George Bryant, Godfrey Cass, Roy Redgrave
100. The Remittance Man (1913)
Director: W.J. Lincoln | Stars: George Bryant, Godfrey Cass, Roy Redgrave
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