Yachts and Hearts, or The Opium Smugglers

Yachts and Hearts, or The Opium Smugglers
Yachts and Hearts, or The Opium Smugglers
Directed by	Charles Byers Coates
Starring	Beryl Clifton; Chris Olsen
Cinematography	G.L. Gouday
Production; company	Antipodes Films
Release date	25 March 1918;
Running time	5 reels
Country	Australia
Languages	Silent film ; English intertitles

Last updated June 19, 2025

Yachts and Hearts, or The Opium Smugglers is a 1918 Australian silent film about opium smugglers in Sydney.^[1]

Plot

Opium smugglers work in Sydney. There is a car chase which ends in a crash, a cabaret which turns into a church, a yacht race in Sydney harbour, and 40 bathing beauties.

According to one contemporary report the film consisted of "5 heart throbbing acts, wholly and solely produced in Australia by Antipodes Films. See the great motor smash, police raid on gambling saloon, and a girl's thrilling biplane flight over Sydney."^[2]

Cast

Beryl Clifton as Ella Deane^[3]
Chris Olsen as Maurice Dean
Arthur Spence as detective
Clare St Clair as Mrs Friedman
Billie Monckton as crippled boy
Edith Clarke
Vera Chamberlain
Melville Stevenson
Dorothy and Lola Campbell
David Edelsten
Marjorie Sergeant

Production

This was the second movie from Antipodes Films, who had previously made A Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860 . The movie was shot in January 1918.^[1]

Release

The film seems to have made little impact. It played as a support feature in some cinemas.^[4]

Antipodes made no more movies.^[1]

References

1 2 3 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 79
↑ "MASONIC INSTALLATION". Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser . NSW. 25 June 1918. p. 2. Retrieved 7 February 2016– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "Advertising". The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers' Advocate . Parramatta, NSW. 20 April 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 18 July 2012– via National Library of Australia.
↑ "WALLSEND AND PLATTSBURG". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate . 8 July 1918. p. 6. Retrieved 7 February 2016– via National Library of Australia.

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[Pike-1] 1 2 3 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 79

[2] "MASONIC INSTALLATION". Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser . NSW. 25 June 1918. p. 2. Retrieved 7 February 2016– via National Library of Australia.

[3] "Advertising". The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers' Advocate . Parramatta, NSW. 20 April 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 18 July 2012– via National Library of Australia.

[4] "WALLSEND AND PLATTSBURG". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate . 8 July 1918. p. 6. Retrieved 7 February 2016– via National Library of Australia.

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