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Ben Hall and His Gang

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Genre
  
Short

Cinematography
  
Herbert Finlay

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Writer
  
Agnes Gavin

Language
  
Silent

Director
  
John Gavin

Screenplay
  
Agnes Gavin

Cast
  
Agnes Gavin, John Gavin

Duration
  

Country
  
Australia

Release date
  
30 January 1911

Ben Hall and his Gang is a 1911 film about the bushranger Ben Hall, played by John Gavin, who also directed. It is considered a lost film.

Contents

Plot

The adventures of bushranger Ben Hall, including:

  • Ben Hall's home.
  • My Child! My Child! You Have No Mother
  • Ben Gambling to Forget his Sorrows.
  • Ben Hall arrested.
  • His First Crime.
  • Ben Hall's sensational escape from Bathurst Gaol.
  • Sticking up three police disguised as shearers.
  • Ben Hall's first robbery under arms.
  • Sticking up the Eugowra Mail.
  • Black Bob shot.
  • The Trooper's leap for life.
  • Hall meeting his false friend.
  • The Wages of Sin.

    • Cast

    The characters included:

  • Ben Hall
  • Gilbert
  • Vane
  • O'Meally
  • Dunne

    • Production

    This was the first film Gavin made for the producing team of Stanley Crick and Herbert Finlay after ending his association with H. A. Forsyth and Southern Cross Film Enterprises. Gavin publicly announced he had left Southern Cross in advertising for the film.

    Crick and Finlay were based out of offices at 75 York St Sydney.

    Reception

    The film performed well at the box office.

    Gavin went on to make three more films for Crick and Finlay (Frank Gardiner, the King of the Road (1911), Keane of Kalgoorlie (1911), The Assigned Servant (1911)), and one for their new company, the Australian Photo-Play Company (The Mark of the Lash (1911)).

    References

    Ben Hall and His Gang Wikipedia
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