Joe (1924 film)

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Joe
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Still from film
Directed by Beaumont Smith
Written byBeaumont Smith
Based onJoe Wilson & Joe Wilson's Mates by Henry Lawson
Produced byBeaumont Smith
Starring Arthur Tauchert
Marie Lorraine
Cinematography Lacey Percival
Production
company
Beaumont Smith's Productions
Distributed byBeaumont Smith
Release date
  • 23 August 1924 (1924-08-23) [1] [2]
Running time
5,000 feet
CountryAustralia
Languagesilent

Joe is a 1924 Australian silent film comedy directed by Beaumont Smith based on the stories of Henry Lawson about the character Joe Wilson.

Contents

It is believed to be a lost film. [3]

Plot

Mary Brand (Constance Graham), the young housekeeper at old Black's station, becomes the wife of Joe Wilson (Arthur Tauchert), the painter. The couple take up farming, but Joe leaves on a business visit to Sydney, and becomes entangled in the affairs of his sister-in-law Barbara (Marie Lorraine), who has been instrumental in the destruction of a dress belonging to her employers. Joe pays for the dress and takes Barbara back to the bush.

Barbara reconciles with Harry Black, old Black's son, who has lately ended an unhappy marriage. Barbara and Harry fall in love. [4]

Action sequences include a bushfire and a ball in the city.

Cast

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The Sun 24 August 1924

Production

The movie was the film debut of Marie Lorraine, one of the famous McDonagh sisters. It was shot in June 1924 on location in the Burragorang Valley near Sydney, with interiors at the Rushcutter's Bay studio of Australasian Films. The ball scene was shot at the Ambassador's Dance Palais over a one-day 14-hour shoot. [5]

The film was known before production as When the World Was Wide [6] and was shot in the under the title Plain Joe. [7]

Reception

The film received better reviews than most of Smith's work and was reportedly a box office success. [5] [8] [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Ross Cooper,"Filmography: Beaumont Smith", Cinema Papers, March–April 1976 p333
  2. ↑ "THE WEEK'S PICTURES". Evening News . No. 17838. New South Wales, Australia. 21 August 1924. p. 12. Retrieved 3 December 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Joe". silentera.com. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "PRODUCTION OF "JOE"". The Mail . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 13 September 1924. p. 15. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  5. 1 2 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 121.
  6. ↑ "Arthur Tauchert to Star in New Production", Everyones, 4 (217): 17, 30 April 1924, retrieved 3 December 2018
  7. ↑ "THE WEEK'S PICTURES". Evening News . No. 17814. New South Wales, Australia. 24 July 1924. p. 12. Retrieved 3 December 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "LAST NIGHT'S PICTURES". The Sunday Times . No. 2012. New South Wales, Australia. 24 August 1924. p. 20. Retrieved 3 December 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "AUSTRALIAN PICTURE". The Newcastle Sun . No. 2023. New South Wales, Australia. 20 September 1924. p. 7. Retrieved 3 December 2018– via National Library of Australia.


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