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Film Details - Mathews Photoplay Producing Company , 1917
Production Companies:
Mathews Photoplay Producing Company.
Cast:
Including Cyril Mackay (Jack Rundle), Claude Turton (Ted Rundle), C. R. Stanford (John Rundle), Marie d'Alton (Vera), Miss Ida Gresham (Mrs Rundle), and Mabel Dyson (Nellie Fallon).
Other actors involved in the production included Victor Fitzherbert, who played 'the villain of the piece'.
Release Dates:
Preview screening on 14 December 1916, in Adelaide.
Premiered 3 January 1917 (in Adelaide).
Release was delayed while the censor determined whether or not the film would pass, 'but after viewing it the Chief Secretary (Hon. A. W. Styles) said that he would allow it to be screened, as it was a splendid object lesson, but that no children under 16 were to be permitted to view it.' ('Remorse', The Mail, 23 December 1916, p.8).
Location:
- Filmed in Adelaide (city scenes) and at Buckland Park (country scenes).
