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Robbery Under Arms (1920 Film)
''Robbery Under Arms'' is a 1920 Australian film directed by Kenneth Brampton and financed by mining magnate Pearson Tewksbury. It is an early example of the "Meat pie Western". Plot Two brothers, Dick and Jim Marsden, become involved with the bushranger, Captain Starlight. They romance two girls, work on the goldfields, and are captured by the police after Starlight is shot dead. Cast * Kenneth Brampton as Captain Starlight * S. A. Fitzgerald as Ben Marsden * Roland Conway as Dick Marsden * Cliff Pyatt as Jim Marsden * Roy Redgrave as Dan Moran * William Pearson as Sir Frederick Moranger * Stuart MacRae as Inspector Goring * Jackie Anderson as Warrigal * Vera Archer as Jennie Morrison * Betty Crook as Miss Falkland * Hilda Dorrington as Kate Morrison * Tien Hogue as Aileen Marsden * Austral Nichol as Mrs. Knightley * Wilton Power as George Storefield * Phyllis Ruthven as Grace Storefield * Sybil Shirley * Nan Taylor as Mrs. Marsden * H. D. Wise as Mr. Knightley * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Brampton
Kenneth Brampton (died 21 June 1942) was an Australian actor, writer and director. He was an actor in England before coming to Australia. He later ran an acting school. Filmography *''Robbery Under Arms'' (1920) – actor, director *'' The Dingo'' (1923) – director, writer *'' The Hayseeds'' (1933) – actor *'' Splendid Fellows'' (1934) – writer *'' Uncivilised'' (1936) – actor *'' Typhoon Treasure'' (1938) – actor References External linksKenneth Bramptonat National Film and Sound ArchiveKenneth Brampton Australian theatre creditsat AusStage AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up unt ... Australian male film actors Australian male stage actors Australian film directors Year of birth missing 1942 deaths {{Australia-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austral Nichol
Austral means 'southern', often in reference to the Southern Hemisphere. Austral may also refer to: Businesses *Austral Líneas Aéreas, an Argentine airline * Air Austral, an airline based in Réunion *Austral (bus manufacturer), a defunct Australian bus body manufacturer Education * Austral University, a private university in Argentina *Universidad Austral de Chile, a Chilean traditional university Entertainment venues *Austral Picture Palace, Kilkenny, South Australia *Austral Picture Theatre, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia * Austral Theatre, Naracoorte, South Australia *The Austral, a pub in Rundle Street, Adelaide, South Australia Events *Austral Wheel Race, the world's oldest track bicycle race, held in Victoria, Australia *Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships, a collegiate debating tournament also known as the "Australs" Places * Austral, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia *Austral Islands, the southernmost group of islands in French Polynesi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Morning Bulletin
''The Morning Bulletin'' is an online newspaper servicing the city of Rockhampton and the surrounding areas of Central Queensland, Australia. From 1861 to 2020, ''The Morning Bulletin'' was published as a print edition, before then becoming an exclusively online newspaper. The final print edition was published on 27 June 2020. History The first issue of ''The Bulletin'' was launched on 9 July 1861. It is the second oldest business in Rockhampton, the oldest being the Criterion Hotel which was established in October 1860. The founder and original owner, William Hitchcock Buzacott (1831–1880, brother of Charles Hardie Buzacott), brought the press and equipment from Sydney in 1861 where he operated a small weekly paper. At the time the paper was called the Rockhampton Bulletin and was eagerly read by the town's 698 residents. The newspaper was published as ''The Rockhampton Bulletin and Central Queensland Advertiser'' from July 1861 to 14 January 1871. Then as ''The Rockham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarke Brothers
Brothers Thomas (c. 1840 – 25 June 1867) and John Clarke (c. 1846 – 25 June 1867) were Australian bushrangers from the Braidwood district of New South Wales. They committed a series of high-profile crimes which led to the enacting of the Felons' Apprehension Act (1866), a law that introduced the concept of outlawry in the colony and authorised citizens to kill bushrangers on sight. Thomas was proclaimed an outlaw on 31 May 1866. Active in the southern goldfields from 1865 until their capture, Thomas and John were joined for a time by their brother James and several associates. They were responsible for a reported 71 robberies and hold-ups, as well as the death of at least one policeman; they are also suspected of killing a squad of four policemen looking to bring them in. The Clarkes also murdered one of their own gang members and a man they wrongly assumed was a police tracker, and shot several other victims. They were captured during a shoot-out in April 1867 and hanged tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Mail
''The Sydney Mail'' was an Australian magazine published weekly in Sydney. It was the weekly edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' newspaper and ran from 1860 to 1938. History ''The Sydney Mail'' was first published on 17 July 1860 by John Fairfax and Sons. In 1871 the magazine was renamed for the first time, and it was published as ''The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser'' from 1871 to 1912. In 1912 it reverted to its original name, ''The Sydney Mail'', and was published under this masthead until 28 December 1938 when the magazine ceased publication. It was published on a weekly basis and became known for its illustrations. Earlier titles ''The Sydney Mail'' had absorbed another John Fairfax publication when it began in 1860, the ''Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List'', which was first published in 1844 by Charles Kemp and John Fairfax and at that time absorbed the ''Sydney General Trade List''. This was the final title of the ''List'', which began pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearson Tewksbury
Pearson may refer to: Organizations Education *Lester B. Pearson College, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada *Pearson College (UK), London, owned by Pearson PLC *Lester B. Pearson High School (other) Companies *Pearson PLC, a UK-based international media conglomerate, best known as a book publisher **Pearson Education, the textbook division of Pearson PLC ***Pearson-Longman, an imprint of Pearson Education *Pearson Yachts Places * Pearson, California (other) *Pearson, Georgia, a US city *Pearson, Texas, an unincorporated community in the US * Pearson, Victoria, a ghost town in Australia *Pearson, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the US * Toronto Pearson International Airport, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada *Pearson Field, in Vancouver, Washington, US *Pearson Island, an island in South Australia which is part of the Pearson Isles *Pearson Isles, an island group in South Australia Other uses *Pearson (surname) * Pearson correlation coefficient, a statistical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Rolfe (director)
Alfred Rolfe, real name Alfred Roker (1862– 9 September 1943), was an Australian stage and film director and actor, best known for being the son-in-law of the celebrated actor-manager Alfred Dampier, with whom he appeared frequently on stage, and for his prolific output as a director during Australia's silent era, including ''Captain Midnight, the Bush King'' (1911), ''Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road'' (1911) and ''The Hero of the Dardanelles'' (1915). Only one of his films as director survives today. Biography Alfred Roker was born in 1862 in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, the son of Arthur Roker & Mary Ann (''née'' Holman). He used the stage-name 'Alfred Rolfe' when he began working as an actor. Rolfe joined Charles Holloway (stage), Charles Holloway's acting company, where he acted alongside Richard Stewart and Essie Jenyns. In 1888 Rolfe toured New Zealand in George Darrell's company. Alfred Dampier He then joined the Alfred Dampier Company in 1890, fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Crick
Stanley Sadler Crick (9 October 1888 – 1955) was an Australian film producer, distributor and politician. He joined the Melbourne office of Pathe Freres and became manager of the Sydney branch in 1909. He went into production, first in partnership with Herbert Finlay then helping establish the Australian Photo-Play Company. When that ended in 1912 he went into distribution as managing director of the express Film Service and in 1914 became partner of John C. Jones in another distribution service. He managed Fox Film Corporation's Australian operation from 1919 to 1938, during that time also serving as a chairman of director of Hoyts Theatres. He was an opponent of quotas for Australian films. He worked as an alderman on the Sydney City Council from 1935 and served as Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1940 to 1942.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 13 Selected filmography *''Ben Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bushranger Ban
The bushranger ban was a ban on films about bushrangers that came in effect in Australia in 1911–12. Films about bushrangers had been the most popular genre of local films ever since ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'' (1906). Governments were worried about the influence this would have on the population and bans against films depicting bushrangers were introduced in South Australia (1911), New South Wales (a 1912 amendment to the 1908 New South Wales Theatres and Public Halls Act) and Victoria (1912). The decision had a considerable impact on the local industry as it meant filmmakers could not work in a popular genre. Australian film production, which in 1911 was one of the highest in the world, went into decline. The ban was still in effect in the 1930s and hurt efforts to make a number of Australian movies, including an adaptation of ''Robbery Under Arms'' from director Ken G. Hall. A ban on a film about Ned Kelly, '' When the Kellys Rode'' was not lifted until 1942. The Hollyw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbery Under Arms
''Robbery Under Arms'' is a bushranger novel by Thomas Alexander Browne, published under his pen name Rolf Boldrewood. It was first published in serialised form by ''The Sydney Mail'' between July 1882 and August 1883, then in three volumes in London in 1888. It was abridged into a single volume in 1889 as part of Macmillan's one-volume Colonial Library series and has not been out of print since. It is considered a classic of Australian colonial literature, alongside Marcus Clarke's convict novel ''For the Term of his Natural Life'' (1876) and Fergus Hume's mystery crime novel '' The Mystery of a Hansom Cab'' (1886), and has inspired numerous adaptations in film, television and theatre. Plot introduction Writing in the first person, the narrator Dick Marston tells the story of his life and loves and his association with the notorious bushranger Captain Starlight, a renegade from a noble English family. Set in the bush and goldfields of Australia in the 1850s, Starlight's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Chauvel (filmmaker)
Charles Edward Chauvel OBE (7 October 1897 – 11 November 1959) was an Australian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter and nephew of Australian army General Sir Harry Chauvel. He is noted for writing and directing the films '' Forty Thousand Horsemen'' in 1940 and ''Jedda'' in 1955. His wife, Elsa Chauvel, was a frequent collaborator on his filmmaking projects. Early life Family Charles Edward Chauvel was born on 7 October 1897 in Warwick, Queensland, the son of James Allan Chauvel and his wife Susan Isabella (née Barnes), pioneer farmers in the Mutdapilly area. He was the nephew of General Sir Harry Chauvel, Commander of the Australian Light Horse and later the Desert Mounted Corps in Palestine during World War I. His father, a grazier, at 53 also enlisted to serve in Palestine and Sinai in World War I. The Chauvels were descended from a French Huguenot family who fled France for England in 1685, and soon established a tradition of serving in the British army. The Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nan Taylor
Nan or NAN may refer to: Places China * Nan County, Yiyang, Hunan, China * Nan Commandery, historical commandery in Hubei, China Thailand * Nan Province ** Nan, Thailand, the administrative capital of Nan Province * Nan River People Given name *Nan Cross (1928–2007), South African anti-apartheid and anti-conscription activist *Nan Hayworth (born 1959), former U.S. Representative from New York's 19th Congressional District *Nan Wood Honeyman, (1881–1970), first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Oregon * Nan Hu, Chinese physician-scientist, molecular geneticist, and cancer epidemiologist * Nan Kempner (1930–2005), New York socialite * Nan Martin (1927–2010), American actress *Nan Grogan Orrock (born 1943), member of the Georgia House of Representatives and State Senator * Nan Phelps (1904–1990), American folk artist *Nan Rich (born 1942), member of the Florida Senate and former member of the House of Representatives *Nan C. Robertson (1926–2009), Pulitzer Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
