The Bushwhackers (film)

The Bushwhackers is a 1925 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford loosely based on Alfred Tennyson's Enoch Arden. It is considered a lost film.

Plot

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 rescuing him from two thugs and the two decide to go prospecting together. They have a variety of adventures before stumbling upon a gold deposit. Then while walking along the cliffs one day Bill slips and falls into the river below. Kenneth looks for him but can't find the body and Bill is believed to be dead. Kenneth returns to the city to share the gold with Elsa and Betty. When Kenneth inherits money from an English relative, he proposes to Elsa.

Years later a bush character appears, 'Mad Joe', who is Bill - it turns out Bill survived the fall but lost his memory. He later regains his memory after a hospital operation and tracks down his wife. But once he sees how happy she is with Elsa, he returns to the bush. ^[1]

Production

Rawdon Blandford wrote a song especially for the film.^[2]

Cast

• Eddie O'Reilly as Bill Lawson
• Stella Southern as Elsa Lawson
• Beryl Gow
• Rawdon Blandford as Kenneth Hillyard
• Margaret Reid
• Billy Ryan

References

External links

• The Bushwhackers at the Internet Movie Database
• The Bushwhackers at National Film and Sound Archive