''A Coo-ee from Home'' is a 1918 Australian silent film directed by
Charles Woods about a miner who falls in love with a wealthy heiress. During filming a climactic
shark attack
A shark attack is an attack on a human by a shark. Every year, around 80 unprovoked attacks are reported worldwide. Despite their rarity, many people fear shark attacks after occasional serial attacks, such as the Jersey Shore shark attacks of ...
, leading actor Bryce Rowe was attacked by a real shark and almost died.
[Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 74]
Plot
Miner Will Morrison marries heiress Grace Norwood. Jealous Richard Myers tries to convince Will that Grace is unfaithful and when that fails he drugs Will and frames him for murder. Will is sentenced to death but a prison chaplain helps him escape. He runs away to sea, is exposed on board, jumps into the water, is attacked by a shark, but he manages to fight it off and escape. He reads that Richard has been arrested for murder back home. Will returns home and marries Grave.
Cast
*Gertrude Darley as Grace Norwood
*Bryce Rowe as Will Morrison
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Charles Villiers
*Charles Woods
Production
During filming the shark attack sequence, actor Bryce Rowe was attacked by a real shark and almost died. He had to spend two weeks in hospital.
Release
The fight between Will and the shark was heavily publicised on release.
References
External links
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''A Coo-ee from Home''at
National Film and Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national co ...
Australian black-and-white films
Lost Australian films
1918 films
1918 drama films
Australian silent feature films
1918 lost films
Lost drama films
Silent Australian drama films
1910s English-language films
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