Tiger Island (1930 film)

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Tiger Island
Directed by Gerald M. Hayle
Written byGerald M. Hayle
Starring Godfrey Cass
Production
company
Victorian Film Productions
Release date
  • March 1930 (1930-03) [1]
CountryAustralia
LanguageSilent

Tiger Island is a 1930 silent Australian film about a father and daughter living on an island off the Victorian coast who become involved in drug running. It is considered a lost film. [2]

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Plot

An old man and his beautiful daughter are lured to an island on the Victorian coast with the promise of a share in a deceased person's estate. The father finds the fortune was made from drug smuggling, the contraband being dropped off by passing steamers.

The old man joins the drug trade. A detective investigates and falls for the girl. The drug smuggler is unmasked, the old man is exonerated and the detective is united with the girl.

Cast

Production

The film was shot as a silent movie in 1929, in Melbourne and off the coast of Victoria. [3] Advertisements for crew were listed in March, [4] and the movie was complete by June. [5] It was the second feature from the Victorian Film Production syndicate.

Release

The coming of sound pictures limited its commercial chances. [2]

The film was one of only four films entered in the Commonwealth government's £10,000 film competition. Of the four, it was judged the third best, after Fellers (1930) and The Cheaters (1930) but in front of The Nation of Tomorrow. However, only Fellers was ruled eligible for a prize. [6]

Critical

The Bulletin wrote if the film "were five times better acted and five times better photographed, it would still be entirely negligible. It is the most actionless film ever conceived- Yet there is nothing lacking in the plot from that point of view... The producer has performed the remarkable feat, of draining this promising story of every bit of dramatic interest by presenting it in a series of glimpses of people talking, followed by sub-titles telling what they said... T Pictures like “Tiger Island” are likely to do more harm than good to the Australian industry, and speaking kindly of them doesn’t help, for movie audiences these days are entirely composed of connoisseurs." [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "AUSTRALIAN FILMS". The Sunday Times . Perth: National Library of Australia. 30 March 1930. p. 11. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  2. 1 2 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p152
  3. ↑ "Advertising". Portland Guardian . Vic.: National Library of Australia. 15 June 1931. p. 2 Edition: EVENING. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  4. ↑ "Classified Advertising". The Argus . Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 21 March 1929. p. 20. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  5. ↑ "Australian Pictures". The Argus . Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 7 June 1929. p. 10. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  6. ↑ "AUSTRALIAN FILM". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 22 May 1930. p. 11. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  7. ↑ "SHADOW SHOWS The STATE THEATRES", The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 26 March 1930, nla.obj-606684515, retrieved 14 July 2024– via Trove


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