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With a screenplay written by C. J. Dennis, based on his collection of verse published as The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, this cinematic adaptation similarly tells the story of Bill, a larrikin of the Little Lonsdale Street Push, who is introduced to a young woman called Doreen. Through the course of their courtship and eventual marriage, Bill transforms from a violence-prone gang member to a contented husband and father.
Although Dennis retains the basic storyline of the poems, he also adds a sub-plot in which Bill saves Doreen's Uncle Jim from an attempted swindle.
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Fragments of the original verse appear in titles superimposed over either the action or Hal Gye's accompanying drawings (the same drawings published in the original 1915 volume of poems).
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Two Remakes : Ideologies of Film Production 1919-1932
1982
single work
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— Appears in: Nellie Melba, Ginger Meggs and Friends : Essays in Australian Cultural History 1982; (p. 33-59)
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Two Remakes : Ideologies of Film Production 1919-1932
1982
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Nellie Melba, Ginger Meggs and Friends : Essays in Australian Cultural History 1982; (p. 33-59)