₤500 Reward

₤500 Reward
Directed by Claude Flemming
Produced by Claude Flemming
Written by Claude Flemming
Starring Claude Flemming
Renee Adoree
Cinematography Lacey Percival
Release date(s) 18 November 1918
Running time seven reels
Country Australia
Language Silent film
English intertitles

£500 Reward is a 1918 Australian silent film starring, written, produced, financed and directed by Claude Flemming who later described it as "a very lurid melodrama".[1]

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Synopsis

A "five-act" drama about a couple who travel from the Rocky Mountains to Seattle then wind up shipwrecked en route to Queensland.[2]

Production

The film was written, produced, directed and financed by Claude Flemming. It was reported to be the first feature film to include footage of Mount Kosciusko.[3] The cast included Renee Adoree, who was then a dancer touring Australia, and subsequently went on to star in The Big Parade (1925).

Reception

The film ran for two weeks in a cinema in Sydney. Flemming then had to go overseas to London and by the time he came back he was unable to locate a copy of the negative. A copy was found in a basement in 1938.[4]

Cast

References

  1. ^ "OLD FILM FOUND.". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) (NSW: National Library of Australia): p. 18. 25 June 1938. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27977513. Retrieved 5 January 2012. 
  2. ^ "Advertising.". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) (NSW: National Library of Australia): p. 3. 22 November 1918. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15812041. Retrieved 5 January 2012. 
  3. ^ "AMUSEMENTS. LOCAL PHOTO-PLAY—"£500 REWARD.".". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) (NSW: National Library of Australia): p. 8. 29 October 1918. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15808703. Retrieved 5 January 2012. 
  4. ^ "OLD FILM FOUND.". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) (NSW: National Library of Australia): p. 18. 25 June 1938. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27977513. Retrieved 5 January 2012. 

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