Distributed by Eureka Films Director George Willoughby Cast Pauline Frederick | Produced by George Willoughby Starring Jean Robertson Initial release 1916 | |
Productioncompany Willoughby's Photo-plays Similar A Virtuous Vamp, The Straight Road, Girls, The City, Beau Brummell | ||
The Woman in the Case is a 1916 Australian silent film based on a popular play of the same name by Clyde Fitch.
Contents
It is considered a lost film.
Plot
Julian Rolfe has an affair with Clare Foster as a young man, but then settles down to marriage with Margaret. Clare tries to blackmail Julian but Margaret destroys the letters. Clare murders Julian's ward, Phillip, and tries to frame Julian for it. Julian is sentenced to death but Margaret manages to get Clare to confess.
Cast
Production
George Willoughby had toured with the play though Australia in 1911 and 1912 to great success. Over 300 people were involved in making the movie.
Fred Knowles was an English actor touring Australia. After making the film he enlisted in the AIF and was wounded in France in May 1917, losing an arm. However he managed to resume his career.
Two other films were made from the same play, in 1916 and 1922 (as The Law and the Woman).
Release
The movie was trade screened in May 1916.
Willoughby later revived the play in 1927.
It was announced that the Willoughby Company were then to make The Pearl of the Pacific based on a story by Randolph Bedford, but this film appears to have never been made.