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The Hordern Mystery

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Directed by
  
Harry Southwell

Written by
  
M.F. Gatwood

Production company
  
Southwell Screen Plays

Director
  
Harry Southwell

Produced by
  
Harry Southwell

Based on
  
novel by Edmund Finn

Initial release
  
1920

Cinematography
  
Tasman Higgins

Starring
  
Claude Turton Flo Little

Similar
  
The Fatal Wedding, The Midnight Wedding, The Romantic Story of M, Captain Midnight - the Bush, Captain Starlight - or Gentlema

The Hordern Mystery is an Australian feature length film directed by Harry Southwell based on an 1889 novel by Edmund Finn (son of Edmund Finn).

Contents

Unlike many Australian silent films, it still survives today.

Plot

Money-hungry Gilbert Hordern is married to an adoring wife and has a child. He pretends to be his own evil twin brother so he can marry a millionaire's daughter. He succeeds but is wracked with guilt and confesses. He wakes up and realises it was all a dream.

Cast

  • Claude Turton as Gilbert Hordern
  • Flo Little as Midge Hordern
  • Floris St George as Laura Yellaboyce
  • Godfrey Cass as Dan Yellaboyce
  • Thomas Sinclair as Peter Mull
  • Beatrice Hamilton as Mrs Mull
  • David Edelsten
  • Production

    The film was shot in suburban Sydney in mid 1920 under the title The Golden Flame. Commercial reception appears to have been poor.

    References

    The Hordern Mystery Wikipedia