Initial release 1921 Story by C. J. Dennis | Produced by E. J. Carroll | |
Written by Raymond LongfordLottie Lyell Based on The Moods of Ginger Mick and Doreen by C. J. Dennis Film series The Sentimental Bloke Film Series Similar The Sentimental Bloke, The Blue Mountains Mystery, The Fatal Wedding, The Bushwhackers, The Midnight Wedding | ||
Ginger Mick is a 1920 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on The Moods of Ginger Mick by C. J. Dennis, which had sold over 70,000 copies. It is a sequel to The Sentimental Bloke (1919) and is considered a lost film.
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Plot
The adventures of Ginger Mick (Gilbert Emery) take him from slums and backyards to lock-ups and racecourses. He romances Rose, works as a rabbitoh and enlists to fight in World War I. He writes letters back to his old friend, the Bloke (Arthur Tauchert) now married to Doreen (Lottie Lyell) with a young son, Bill. Mick makes friends with a fellow soldier, Keith, and is eventually killed at Gallipoli on the hills of Sari Bair.
Cast
Production
E. J. Carroll wanted a sequel to The Sentimental Bloke so Longford came up with the idea of combining two poems by C. J. Dennis, The Moods of Ginger Mick and Doreen.
Release
The film was popular at the box office and generally well reviewed. It was released in Britain.
The critic to the Sydney Morning Herald said that:
The selection of types, incidents and environment... has been highly intelligent; so that one gets not only a complete idea of the author's story, but apt material presentments of the sort of people of whom Mr. Dennis writes, besides glimpses of the rough haunts and byways where the "fraternity" flourish. Mr. Gilbert W. Emery, who is cast as "Ginger Mick", has quite obviously made a painstaking study of his part, and has succeeded in embodying as many of the bizarre indigenous elements peculiar to that uncommon Australian city type."
Table Talk called the film:
A triumph in the art of natural production, and promises to make an even greater appeal to picture-goers than its famous predecessor. Apart from the natural acting of Gilbert Warren-Emery... there are several unrehearsed incidents in the film, one being a "dinkum scrap" between two kiddies who were striving for front places during the taking of a street scene. The "Bloke" and "Doreen" figure largely in the film, and Arthur Tauchert and Lottie Lyell are as big a hit as ever in these parts.