''Algie's Romance'' is a 1918 Australian

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. It is a comedy starring Charlie Chaplin impersonator Leonard Doogood as an Englishman who arrives in Australia and has adventures.

Plot

An Englishman, Algie, arrives in Australia and stays with friends in the country. Twin sisters both fall in love with him. Various practical jokes are played on Algie, but he eventually proves his mettle. He proves himself a crack shot and gains a wife.

Cast

*Leonard Doogood as Algie *Boyd Irwin *May Henry *June Henry

Production

Doogood was a Charlie Chaplin impersonator who had previously made a one-reel short film in South Australia, ''Charlie's Twin Brother''. The film was shot on a cattle station owned by the

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, near the

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Ranges. Technical facilities were provided by Southern Cross Feature Films.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 83. The film was well received and Doogood made plans for a follow up, ''Dinkum Oil'', based on a novel by Frederick J Mills, but it was never shot. It is considered a

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