The Lure of the Bush | |
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Directed by | Claude Flemming |
Written by | Percy Reay as "Jack North" |
Starring | Snowy Baker |
Cinematography | Franklyn Barrett |
Production company | Snowy Baker Films |
Distributed by | E.J. Carroll |
Release dates | 30 September 1918 (Australia) 1919 (USA) |
Running time | six reels |
Country | Australia |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
Budget | ₤1,500[1] |
Box office | ₤20,000[1] |
The Lure of the Bush is a 1918 Australian silent film starring renowned Australian sportsman Snowy Baker. It is considered a lost film.
Hugh Mostyn (Snowy Baker) is sent from his family station to England for an education and returns to Australia years later as a "gentleman", complete with a white suit and monacle. He seeks work as a jackeroo and is teased by station hands who pretend to hold him up as bushrangers, but he beats them all up. He also breaks in a wild brumby, takes part in a kangaroo hunt, defeats the station bully (Colin Bell) in a boxing match, wins the heart of the manager's daughter, and later rescues her from a rejected suitor.[2]
Colin Bell was a real-life boxer and his on-screen fight with Baker went for five minutes.[3]
The script was the prize winner in a competition held by the Bulletin.[1]
The film was shot in a property near Gunnedah.[4] The female lead, Rita Tress, was a real life squatter's daughter.[5]
Baker visited Hollywood in 1919 and re-shot some sequences there at Jesse Lasky's studios for its American release.[6]
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