Daughter of the East

Daughter of the East, also known as 'The Boy of the Dardanelles', is a 1924 Australian silent film about an Englishman who falls in love with an Greek girl, who is kidnapped by a Turkish pasha just before World War I. He ends up taking part in the Gallipoli Campaign.

The film was financed by Adam Tavlradi, a Greek cafe owner keep to show a film demonstrating the contribution of Greeks to the British war effort. Only portions of the movie survive.^[1]

Cast

• Dorothy Hawtree
• Charles Villiers

References

External links

• Daughter of the East at the Internet Movie Database
• Daughter of the East at National Film and Sound Archive
• Beyond the Rolling Wave: A History of Greek Settlement in New South Wales - an article for the NSW Heritage Office mentioning Adam Tavlaridi