| The Squatter's Daughter | |
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| Directed by | Bert Bailey |
| Produced by | William Anderson |
| Based on | play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan |
| Starring | Bert Bailey Edmund Duggan Olive Wilton |
| Cinematography | Orie Perry |
| Release date(s) | 4 August 1910 |
| Running time | 6,000 feet |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
| Budget | £1,000[1] |
The Squatter's Daughter is a 1910 Australian silent film based on the popular play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan.
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The plot concerns the rivalry between two neighboring sheep stations, Enderby and Waratah. This version includes the subplot about the bushranger Ben Hall which was not used when the play was adapted again in 1933.[2]
Filming took place in June 1910 with cast from the acting company of theatre producer William Anderson at the Kings Theatre Melbourne, many of whom had just appeared in The Man from Outback, also by Bailey and Duggan.[3] Theatre star Olive Wilton played the lead role, with Bailey and Duggan in support. One of her leading men, George Cross, later became a casting director for Cinesound Productions.
Shooting took place in Ivanhoe and other surrounding districts of Melbourne entirely outdoors, even interior scenes. "Under these circumstances brilliant sunshine was the main factor to be wooed," recalled Olive Wilston. "It seemed impossible to acquire sufficient light without a constant battle against high wind, which made these interior scenes a nightmare, with hair and clothes blowing in all directions."[4]
The movie was a popular success at the box office and achieved a cinema release in England, one of the first Australian films to do so. Bert Bailey and Ken G. Hall tried to track down a copy of the movie when Hall directed a version in 1933 but was unsuccessful. No known copies of it exist today, and it is considered a lost film.[5]
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