Initial release 1918 | Starring Snowy Baker Running time six reels Distributed by E. J. Carroll | |
Written by Percy Reay as "Jack North" Release date 30 September 1918 (Australia)1919 (USA) People also search for The Man from Kangaroo, £500 Reward | ||
The Lure of the Bush is a 1918 Australian silent film starring renowned Australian sportsman Snowy Baker. It is considered a lost film.
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Synopsis
Hugh Mostyn (Snowy Baker) is sent from his family station to England for an education and returns to Australia years later as a "gentleman", complete with a white suit and monocle. He seeks work as a jackeroo and is teased by station hands who pretend to hold him up as bushrangers, but he beats them all up. He also breaks in a wild brumby, takes part in a kangaroo hunt, defeats the station bully (Colin Bell) in a boxing match, wins the heart of the manager's daughter, and later rescues her from a rejected suitor.
Colin Bell was a real-life boxer and his on-screen fight with Baker went for five minutes.
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Production
The script was the prize winner in a competition held by the Bulletin.
The film was shot in a property near Gunnedah. The female lead, Rita Tress, was a real life squatter's daughter.
Baker visited Hollywood in 1919 and re-shot some sequences there at Jesse Lasky's studios for its American release.