Production
company The Gaumont Agency Country Australia | Running time 2,000 feet Initial release 30 April 1913 | |
Release date 30 April 1913 (Illawarra) Language Silent film
English intertitles | ||
The Opium Runners is a 1913 Australian silent film. It is considered a lost film.
It was made by the Gaumont Agency who also made Call of the Bush (1912).
It is possible the movie was based on a collection of short stories called The Opium Runners by FRC Hopkins, who had also written All for Gold.
It was advertised as "A Picture that makes you rise from your scat' with excitement A Story with a Perfect Plot and Excop tional' Acting, 'showing many Pretty Typical Scenes of the Australian Bush."
References
The Opium Runners Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA