| The Mark of the Lash | |
|---|---|
 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 by | Australia-Photo Play Company [1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 4,000 feet [2] or 2,000 feet [3] |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | Silent 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]
The movie broke into the following chapters:
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]
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]
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John F. Gavin was a pioneer Australian film actor and director, one of the early filmmakers of the 1910s. He is best known for making films about bushrangers such as Captain Thunderbolt, Captain Moonlite, Ben Hall and Frank Gardiner. Known informally as 'Jack', Gavin worked in collaboration with his wife Agnes, who scripted many of his films.
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