Release date 2 March 1914 | Written by Violet Pettengel Distributed by Fraser Film Company Initial release 2 March 1914 | |
Productioncompany 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.
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