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Adaptation of While the Billy Boils Henry Lawson , 1896 selected work short story
Issue Details: First known date: 1921... 1921 While the Billy Boils
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Film Details - Beaumont Smith's Productions , 1921

Producers:

Beaumont Smith.

Production Companies:

Beaumont Smith's Productions.

Cast:

Including Tal Ordell, Robert McKinnon, Charles Beetham, John Cosgrove, Ernest Hearne, Gilbert Emery, John Orme, Charles Villiers, Gordon Smith, Dave Sterling, Fred Twitchem, Elsie McCormack, Lorna Lantaur, and Rita Aslin.

Source:

'Film Flickers & Fancies', Table Talk, 22 September 1921, p.40.


Release Dates:

17 September 1921.

Location:

  • 'The action of the play takes place principally in and round the township of Redclay, New South Wales, and embraces some magnificent mountain scenery, smiling pastoral and agricultural lands, glimpses of the beautiful Hawkesbury River, intimate scenes in and round Boxhill Station, the century old home of the Terry family, and some of the famous beauty spots of historic Windsor.'

    Source:

    'While the Billy Boils', Daily Herald, 25 October 1921, p.3.

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