''The Lust for Gold'' is a 1922 Australian

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

directed by Roy Darling.

Release

Despite starring several well-known actors, including Gilbert Emery of '' The Sentimental Bloke'' (1919), the film only received a limited release. Darling invested £400 of his own money to make the movie and lost it all, causing him to complain at the 1927 Royal Commission into the Australian Film Industry about unfair exhibition practices in Australia. Darling later made ''

Daughter of the East ''Daughter of the East'', also known as 'The Boy of the Dardanelles', is a 1924 Australian silent film directed by Roy Darling. It is considered a lost film. Plot Harry Wharton is born of English parents in Turkey. Despite being engaged to a ...

'' (1924) with

Dorothy Hawtree Dorothy Hawtree (1902-1981) was an Australian stage and screen actor, dancer and model during the 1920s. In 1919 she joined a theatre company touring the musical comedy ''The Better 'Ole'' to country towns, using motor vehicles to convey the ar ...

, star of this film.

Cast

* Gilbert Emery * Charles Villiers

References

External links

* 1922 films Australian black-and-white films 1922 drama films Silent Australian drama films {{Australia-silent-film-stub