The Opium Runners

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The Opium Runners
Production
company
The Gaumont Agency [1]
Release date
  • 30 April 1913 (1913-4-30)(Illawarra) [2]
Running time
2,000 feet [1]
CountryAustralia
Languages Silent film
English intertitles

The Opium Runners is a 1913 Australian silent film. It is considered a lost film. [3]

It was made by the Gaumont Agency who also made Call of the Bush (1912). [4]

It is possible the movie was based on a collection of short stories called The Opium Runners by FRC Hopkins, who had also written All for Gold . [5] [6]

It was advertised as "A Picture that makes you rise from your seat' with excitement A Story with a Perfect Plot and Exceptional' Acting, 'showing many Pretty Typical Scenes of the Australian Bush." [7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Advertising". The Referee . Sydney. 26 February 1913. p. 16. Retrieved 8 June 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Advertising". Illawarra Mercury . Wollongong, NSW. 25 April 1913. p. 7. Retrieved 8 June 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 37
  4. ↑ "Advertising". The Referee . Sydney. 12 March 1913. p. 16. Retrieved 8 June 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "TWO AUSTRALIAN BOOKS". Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser . NSW. 12 January 1910. p. 18. Retrieved 8 June 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "LATE MR. F. R. C. HOPKINS". The Sydney Morning Herald . 22 July 1916. p. 9. Retrieved 8 June 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "Advertising". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate . 9 June 1913. p. 8. Retrieved 8 June 2015– via National Library of Australia.
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