| One Hundred Years Ago | |
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| Directed by | Gaston Mervale |
| Written by | P. W. Marony |
| Starring | Louise Carbasse |
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Running time | 2,000 feet [2] |
| Country | Australia |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
One Hundred Years Ago is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Gaston Mervale. It features an early screen performance from Louise Lovely (billed as "Louise Carbasse") and is considered a lost film.
The movie was billed as "an Anglo-Australian romantic drama". [3] Jasper Hugh Lovel is sent to prison at Norfolk Island for a crime he did not commit. A woman in England who loves him manages to secure his pardon and they are reunited. [4]
There was a duel sequence. [5]
The film was shot at Australian Life Biograph's factory in Manly, New South Wales. [6]
Unlike many Australian films of the time, it was an original script, not based on a play. The author was Patrick William Marony.
The story is founded on fact. In an old cell at Norfolk Island may be seen the following inscription: "I, Jasper Hugh Lovel, here proclaim, before God and man, I am innocent. May God avenge me on mine enemy." [7]
The Launceston Daily Telegraph called it:
One of those costume playlets, which require a deal of patience, knowledge of the period, and considerable skill to produce. In Mr. Mervalc all these, factors are embraced, and his work is stamped on every foot of the thousands offeet of film... Attention to tho dressing, atmosphere of the early period, and mise en scene, has been minute, iuid the results presented with clarity. [8]
Louise Lovely was an Australian film actress of Swiss-Italian descent. She is credited by film historians as being the first Australian actress to have a successful career in Hollywood, signing a contract with Universal Pictures in the United States in 1914. Lovely appeared in 50 American films and ten Australian films before retiring from acting in 1925.
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