AustLit

The pursuit of a hoard of diamonds (ultimately revealed as fake) leads to murder and abduction.

'In the picture there are many additions, both to the book and the play. First the Waybacks are seen on their selection, and then on a visit to Sydney, in which Dads and Mums take a trip to Bondi, and see girls high-diving and sun-bathing. As the comedy develops the producer contrives to intensify interest by keeping before the spectator different threads of the story at the one time. For instance, the audience sees Mums and Tilly at the fortune-teller's, and then Dads and Charlie Lyons with the girls in the surf. Parallel with these two changing scenes are shown the quarrels and lights in the yard of the house occupied by the Waybacks in Sydney, and the development of the love affairs of the hero and heroine away in the country.'

Source:

'The Waybacks', The Advertiser, 3 June 1918, p.9