''The Man Who Forgot'' is a 1927 silent Australian feature film which marked the directorial debut of

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. It is considered a lost film.

Production

Little is known about the movie apart from the fact it was a low-budget melodrama shot outdoors to save on studio costs. The story included scenes at the Ascot racecourse in Melbourne, a fight on the brink of the

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, timber felling in the Dandenong Rangers, and an escape by the hero in an aeroplane at the Essendon Aerodrome.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p141

Release

Harwood distributed the film himself in partnership with his leading actors Nicholls and Hallam. They showed it on a double bill with ''

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'' (1925) around rural Victoria. Harwood, Nicholls and Hallam then announced plans to make a second feature together, a farce called Struth, but the project was abandoned and Harwood spent the next few years in distribution.

Cast

* William Hallam as Crazy Dan * Walter Nicholls as Stephen Jackson

References

External links

* 1927 films Lost Australian films Australian silent feature films Australian black-and-white films {{Australia-silent-film-stub