Wards of the Outer March is a 1932 Australian novel by Kay Glasson Taylor. It was the tale of a convict in colonial New South Wales. [1] [2] [3] [4] The book had been serialised by the Australian Woman's Mirror in 1930 under the pseudonym Daniel Hamline, with illustrations by Percy Lindsay. [5] [6]
Charles Chauvel bought the film rights. [7]
In the 1950s he and his wife Elsa wrote a film script of the novel for Warwick Pictures. [8] In April 1956 Warwick announced the film would be made as The Broad Arrow as part of a three-year slate of films worth $17 million. [9] The film was scheduled for filming in August 1956 under the title The Broad Arrow. [10] However it was not made. [11] In November 1956 Chauvel said he could not accept the script which Warwick sent him. "I consider that the title The Broad Arrow is an affront and the new script a grave mis-statement of Australian history and sentiment," said Chauvel. [12]