The Adventures of Algy
4 /10 1 Votes4
Genre Comedy, Drama Language Silent | Director Beaumont Smith Screenplay Beaumont Smith Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 20 June 1925 Similar movies The Hayseeds Melbourne Cup (1918), The Shaggy Dog (1959), Wings (1927), The Noose Hangs High (1948), Beau Geste (1939) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Adventures of Algy is a 1925 Australian film comedy from director Beaumont Smith about a "silly ass" Englishman (Claude Dampier) who inherits a sheep station in New Zealand. It is an unofficial follow up to Hullo Marmaduke (1924), which also starred Dampier.
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Unlike most of Smith's silent films, most of the movie survives today.
Plot
Algy (Claude Dampier) is an Englishman who travels to New Zealand to claim a sheep station he has inherited. He falls in love with a neighbour, Kiwi McHill (Bathie Stuart), then travels to Australia. He runs into Kiwi again, using dances she has learned from her Maori friends in a Sydney revue. When he returns to New Zealand he strikes oil on his farm and he and Kiwi are married.
Cast
Production
The film was shot on location in New Zealand (Wellington, Rotarua) and Sydney (Circular Quay) during early 1925. There were two dance sequences, one in a Maori village and the other in a Sydney theatre, plus extensive scenic photography of New Zealand.
Dampier later married his co-star, Billie Carlyle.
Reception
Reviews for the film were generally positive. Film writers Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper wrote that:
The film... reveals a heavy reliance on titles to propel the insubstantial plot along, and frequently the images are little more than illustrations for the printed text.
Smith was becoming exhausted with film production and concentrated on distribution and exhibition instead over the next eight years. He returned to directing with The Hayseeds (1933).
References
The Adventures of Algy WikipediaThe Adventures of Algy IMDb