''Transported'' is an Australian
convict melodrama
A convict melodrama is a type of melodrama set in Australia during the convicts in Australia, convict era. They normally revolved around stories of innocent people wrongly accused of a crime who were transported to Australia as convicts. The best k ...
film directed by
W. J. Lincoln.
It is considered a
lost film
A lost film is a feature film, feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive. Films can be wholly or partially lost for a number of reasons. ...
.
Plot
In
England
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, Jessie Grey is about to marry Leonard Lincoln but the evil Harold Hawk tries to force her to marry him and she wounds him with a
gun. Hawk is arrested and sentenced to
imprisonment
Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority. In the latter case it is considered " false imprisonment". Impri ...
in
Australia
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.
Leonard and Jessie get married and move to Australia. Hawk escapes from
gaol and tries to get his revenge by kidnapping Jessie.
According to one
contemporary report "The scene opens in an
English inn, but through an attack being made on the inn, the drunken scoundrel who attempts to force the
heroin
Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the Opium, dried latex of the Papaver somniferum, opium poppy; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its eupho ...
e's hand is transported to Australia. Two years after the scene is removed to Australia. The villain, escaping from prison, attempts to force- the heroine's hand, and is frustrated by the appearance of her husband. He shoots himself to escape the penalty."
Cast
*
Roy Redgrave
*
Godfrey Cass
*
George Bryant
*Tom Cannan
[ ]
Release
According to the ''Prahran Telegraph'', Redgrave was "exceptionally good" and "the scenery is brilliant, and some very quaint actions by two of the servants in the household kept the audience ripples of laughter."
References
External links
''Transported''at
IMDb
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''Transported''at
AustLit''Transported''at
National Film and Sound Archive
1913 films
Australian black-and-white films
Australian silent short films
Lost Australian drama films
Australian drama short films
1913 drama films
1910s melodrama films
1913 lost films
Films directed by W. J. Lincoln
Silent Australian drama films
1910s Australian films
1910s English-language films
Lost silent films
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