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1 form y separately published work icon The Sealed Room Arthur Shirley , ( dir. Arthur Shirley ) Australia : Pyramid Pictures , 1926 6337416 1926 single work film/TV crime thriller romance

A Ruritanian romance.

According to a contemporary review in the Register,

'Mr. Shirley takes the principal role of Paul Craig in this dramatic story of anarchy, love, intrigue, and adventure. A tense scene is that enacted in the mysterious house of shadows, where a blind man, losing his way, gets into a strange room, just as a murder is committed. The tense atmosphere tells him that something abnormal is taking place, and then he accidentally comes into contact with a fallen man. Paul Craig's life is spared by the secret conspirators because he is unable to identify them. Later on, this former aviator and distinguished scientist, regains his sight, and falls in love with beautiful Angela Scardon (Grace Glover). But Angela is the ward of Carlo Gelmini (George Bryant), who, by the long arm of coincidence, was a prime mover in the murder. Many exciting happenings follow, until the hero wins deserved happiness.'

Source: 'Ransom's Folly', Register [Adelaide], 1 November 1926, p.14.

1 form y separately published work icon The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Arthur Shirley , ( dir. Arthur Shirley ) Australia : Pyramid Pictures , 1925 6336151 1925 single work film/TV crime mystery

The second Australian film based on Fergus Hume's best-selling novel; the first had been released in 1911. (A British film had also been made in 1915.)

1 The Breaking of the Drought Arthur Shirley , 1902 single work drama The outback station of Wallaby is in the grip of a drought. Unable to stop the bank from repossessing his land, veteran farmer Jo Galloway is forced to move his wife and daughter to the city in the hope that his son Gilbert can help them. Gilbert has supposedly been studying there, but Jo soon finds out that he has been corrupted by the highlife. Worse, Gilbert has long been embezzling the family funds to support his life of luxury and decadence. A number of 'melodramatic' episodes unfold, including a murder and a suicide, before the family is finally able to unite and return to the Wallaby (just as the rains begin to fall once more).
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