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The Swagman's Story

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Directed by
  
Raymond Longford

Starring
  
Lottie Lyell

Release date
  
2 March 1914

Director
  
Raymond Longford

Cast
  
Lottie Lyell

Written by
  
Violet Pettengel

Distributed by
  
Fraser Film Company

Initial release
  
2 March 1914

Cinematography
  
Tasman Higgins

Production company
  
Commonwealth Film Producing Company

Similar
  
The Midnight Wedding, The Bushwhackers, The Man They Could Not Hang, The Fatal Wedding

The Swagman's Story is a 1914 short film directed by Raymond Longford. Although considered a lost film is likely that it was a low-budget support feature.

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Plot

A swagman arrives on the scene of the breakdown of a motor car and tells the honeymooning drivers that he's never liked motor cars as they've never done him any good. He then goes on to explain why – ten years earlier he was living happily with his wife and pretty daughter (Lottie Lyell). Then the daughter got married to a "swell city cove" and she became a member of the high society set, refusing to meet her unsophisticated mother. The mother is killed by a motor car and the father takes to drink and becomes a swagman.

Cast

  • Lottie Lyell
  • J Martin
  • C Stevenson
  • G Corti
  • References

    The Swagman's Story Wikipedia