The Mark of the Lash

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The Mark of the Lash
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Newcastle Herald 4 October 1911
Directed by John Gavin
Written by Agnes Gavin
Produced by Stanley Crick
Herbert Finlay
Starring John Gavin
Production
company
Distributed byAustralia-Photo Play Company [1]
Release date
  • July 1911 (1911-07)
Running time
4,000 feet [2] or 2,000 feet [3]
CountryAustralia
LanguageSilent film

The Mark of the Lash is a 1911 Australian silent film. It is a convict-era melodrama made by the husband-and-wife team of John and Agnes Gavin. [4]

Contents

Plot

The movie broke into the following chapters:

  1. Love's Young Dream.
  2. An Insult. The Traitor.
  3. The Secret Marriage. Arrest of Dennis Blake.
  4. Transported for Life.
  5. Botany Bay Settlement.
  6. On the Triangle. The Recognition.
  7. The Mark of the Lash.
  8. The Confession. Kind-Hearted Warder.
  9. A Sensational Escape.
  10. A Cold Bath. The Police Baffled.
  11. Black Sal's Strategy.
  12. Rescue of the Governor's Daughter.
  13. Acquitted.
  14. A Good Friend. The Dismissal of Captain Morley. [5]

Cast

Townsville Bulletin 5 April 1912 Mark of the Lask synopsis.png
Townsville Bulletin 5 April 1912

Production

Gaving had made four films in association with Stanley Crick and Herbert Finlay: The Assigned Servant, Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner and Keane of Kalgoorlie. The success of his enabled Crick to set up the Australian Photoplay Company who made The Mark of the Lash. [4]

Gavin wrote "I did not favour the idea particularly, as they were introducing two more producers, and I did not think the time was quite ripe for such expansion. As it was, we were all making good money, but the extra people coming in would make the overhead absorb all this; so I pulled out and received a cash price for a parcel of shares, sold out my interest in the four films I had made, and started out on my own as the John F. Gavin Productions." [4]

He set his own company in July 1911. [6] [7] [8]

The movie was announced as being completed and available for screening by July 1911, but does not appear to have been released until the following year. [9]

Release

During a screening in Toowoomba an Irish member of the audience took exception to a scene where a convict was being flogged and attacked the screen before being guided back to his seat. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Advertising". Referee. No. 1297. New South Wales, Australia. 13 September 1911. p. 16. Retrieved 3 July 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Advertising". The Sunday Times . Sydney: National Library of Australia. 26 August 1917. p. 21. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "ALONG FILM ROW Folk. Fact and Fancy....The Laughs and Laments of the Trade", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 3 January 1934, nla.obj-578996760, retrieved 3 July 2024– via Trove
  4. 1 2 3 "When the Australian-Produced Picture Made Big Money.", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 9 May 1923, nla.obj-562121240, retrieved 1 July 2024– via Trove
  5. ↑ "Advertising". Townsville Daily Bulletin . Qld.: National Library of Australia. 5 April 1912. p. 1. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  6. ↑ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 p 40
  7. ↑ "Advertising". The Referee . Sydney: National Library of Australia. 19 July 1911. p. 16. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  8. ↑ "Advertising". The Sun. No. 328. New South Wales, Australia. 18 July 1911. p. 3 (LATEST EDITION). Retrieved 3 July 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 22.
  10. ↑ "MURPHY'S MATE". The Morning Bulletin . Rockhampton, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 27 July 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 22 February 2012.


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