The Hordern Mystery

The Hordern Mystery
Directed by Harry Southwell
Produced by Harry Southwell
Written by M.F. Gatwood
Based on novel by Edmund Finn
Starring Claude Turton
Flo Little
Cinematography Tasman Higgins
Production
company
Southwell Screen Plays
Release dates
23 October 1920[1]
Running time
5,600 feet
Country Australia
Language Silent film
English intertitles

The Hordern Mystery is an Australian feature length film directed by Harry Southwell based on an 1889 novel by Edmund Finn (son of Edmund Finn).

Unlike many Australian silent films, it still survives today.

Plot

Money-hungry Gilbert Hordern is married to an adoring wife and has a child. He pretends to be his own evil twin brother so he can marry a millionaire's daughter. He succeeds but is wracked with guilt and confesses. He wakes up and realises it was all a dream.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in suburban Sydney in mid 1920 under the title The Golden Flame. Commercial reception appears to have been poor.[2]

References

  1. "Filmography", Cinema Papers, June–July 1980 p175
  2. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 102.

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