Movies: Raymond Longford

  • 1911
    The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole

    The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1911)

    The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole

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    The story is founded on fact. In a village on the south coast of England, young Margaret Catchpole is being courted by two rivals, Will Laud, a smuggler, and Lieutenant Barry of the coast guards. She favours Laud, and when he escapes from custody aft...

    The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole
  • 1918
    The Woman Suffers

    The Woman Suffers (1918)

    The Woman Suffers

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    The Woman Suffers is a complicated silent melodrama of revenge and sexual betrayal, only part of which survives. In the first two reels, which have been lost, a woman caught in an abusive marriage runs away with her infant son from her drunken husban...

    The Woman Suffers
  • 1938
    Dad and Dave Come to Town

    Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938)

    Dad and Dave Come to Town

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    Dad and Dave Come to Town is a 1938 Australian comedy film directed by Ken G. Hall, the third in the 'Dad and Dave' comedy series starring Bert Bailey. It was the feature film debut of Peter Finch...

    Dad and Dave Come to Town
  • 1919
    The Sentimental Bloke

    The Sentimental Bloke (1919)

    The Sentimental Bloke

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    Bill is a Woolloomooloo larrikin who vows to abandon his life of gambling and drinking after a spell in gaol following a raid on a two-up game. He falls in love with Doreen, who works in a pickle factory, but faces competition from a more sophisticat...

    The Sentimental Bloke
  • 1940
    Wings of Destiny

    Wings of Destiny (1940)

    Wings of Destiny

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    The story concerns an attempt by fifth columnists to gain control of Australia's supplies of wolfram, a mineral used in the manufacture of munitions, involving a new wolfram field owned by Francis Jamieson (Marshall Crosby)....

    Wings of Destiny
  • 1916
    The Mutiny of the Bounty

    The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916)

    The Mutiny of the Bounty

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    The Mutiny of the Bounty is a 1916 Australian-New Zealand silent film directed by Raymond Longford about the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty. It is the first known cinematic dramatization of this story and is considered a lost film. Longford claimed it was...

    The Mutiny of the Bounty
  • 1911
    Captain Midnight, the Bush King

    Captain Midnight, the Bush King (1911)

    Captain Midnight, the Bush King

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    As an escaped convict, Captain Midnight is welcomed into the Hellville band of bushrangers....

    Captain Midnight, the Bush King
  • 1941
    Racing Luck

    Racing Luck (1941)

    Racing Luck

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    Bluey and Darkie are first world war veterans who save an ailing racehorse from destruction....

    Racing Luck
  • 1925
    The Bushwackers

    The Bushwackers (1925)

    The Bushwackers

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    Bill Lawson (Eddie O'Reilly), a wharf labourer, loses his job and decides to go out bush to find work to support his wife Elsa (Stella Southern) and daughter Betty. He befriends a well-born Englishman, Kenneth Hillyard (Rawdon Blandford) after rescui...

    The Bushwackers
  • 1920
    On Our Selection

    On Our Selection (1920)

    On Our Selection

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    On Our Selection is a 1920 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on the Dad and Dave stories by Steele Rudd....

    On Our Selection
  • 1911
    The Fatal Wedding

    The Fatal Wedding (1911)

    The Fatal Wedding

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    An adventuress, Cora Williams is in love with Howard Wilson, even though he is happily married to Mabel, and they have small children. Cora gets a man called Curtis to pretend to be in love with Mabel and engineers a situation where Howard walks in o...

    The Fatal Wedding
  • 1926
    The Pioneers

    The Pioneers (1926)

    The Pioneers

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    Surviving extract of lost 88 minute original film....

    The Pioneers
  • 1921
    The Blue Mountains Mystery

    The Blue Mountains Mystery (1921)

    The Blue Mountains Mystery

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    The Blue Mountains Mystery involves the alleged murder of a wealthy businessman, Henry Tracey, and the eventual discovery that the victim was an underworld look-alike impersonator....

    The Blue Mountains Mystery
  • 1912
    Tide of Death

    Tide of Death (1912)

    Tide of Death

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    The Tide of Death is a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on an original story by Longford. This was rare at the time because most Australian silent films were based on plays or novels....

    Tide of Death
  • 1914
    Trooper Campbell

    Trooper Campbell (1914)

    Trooper Campbell

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    One-reeler short film....

    Trooper Campbell
  • 1926
    Peter Vernon's Silence

    Peter Vernon's Silence (1926)

    Peter Vernon's Silence

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    Peter Vernon's mother dies and he is adopted by a squatter, Kingston, whose son, Philip, is Peter's age. The two grow up and fall in love with the same girl, Marie....

    Peter Vernon's Silence
  • 1924
    Fisher's Ghost

    Fisher's Ghost (1924)

    Fisher's Ghost

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    Two transported convicts, George Worrall and Frederick Fisher, are released and take up farms at Campbelltown. They are both successful and become friends. Worrall persuades Fisher to go on a trip to England and says he will manage Fisher's farm....

    Fisher's Ghost
  • 1923
    The Dinkum Bloke

    The Dinkum Bloke (1923)

    The Dinkum Bloke

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    When Bill, a worker at Woolloomooloo Wharf, breaks his leg, his wife, Nell has to go to work. She's successful, saving her daughter money, but she gets sick and dies after the operation, promising to raise Peggy the lady....

    The Dinkum Bloke
  • 1910
    The Life and Adventures of John Vane, the Notorious Australian Bushranger

    The Life and Adventures of John Vane, the Notorious Australian Bushranger (1910)

    The Life and Adventures of John Vane, the Notorious Australian Bushranger

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    A 1910 Australian silent film about the bushranger John Vane, who was a member of Ben Hall's gang. The film starts with John Vane accepting a wager that he wouldn't bail up a Chinese man. Then Vane wins his bet by robbing a Chinese man, leading to h...

    The Life and Adventures of John Vane, the Notorious Australian Bushranger