The Wreck | |
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Directed by | W. J. Lincoln |
Written by | W. J. Lincoln |
Based on | poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon |
Cinematography | Maurice Bertel |
Production company | Lincoln Cass [1] |
Release date | 21 June 1915 [2] [3] |
Country | Australia |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
The Wreck is an Australian film directed by W. J. Lincoln based on a poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon about the ride to help by a farmhand who has witnessed a shipwreck. It is considered a lost film. [4]
The movie was made in 1913 by Lincoln Cass in Melbourne. [5] However it was not released until 1915 in Sydney. W. J. Lincoln later made a film of Gordon's life, The Life's Romance of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1916). [6]
The film screened in Cairns in 1916. [7]
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