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Screenplay
  
Beaumont Smith

Producer
  
Beaumont Smith

Country
  
Australia

Director
  
Beaumont Smith

Story by
  
Henry Lawson

Duration
  

Language
  
Silent

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Release date
  
17 September 1921

Based on
  
the stories of Henry Lawson adapted for the stage by Beaumont Smith

Writer
  
Beaumont Smith, Henry Lawson

Initial release
  
September 17, 1921 (Australia)

Cast
  
Henry Lawson, Tal Ordell, John Cosgrove, Gilbert Emery

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While the Billy Boils is a 1921 Australian film from director Beaumont Smith which adapts several stories from Henry Lawson. It is considered a lost film.

Contents

Plot

Bob Brothers (Tal Ordell) is a bushman who quarrelled with his father ten years earlier, left him and changed his name. He returns to his father's station and takes a job there, eventually becoming the union representative of the station hands. His younger brother Dick (Robert MacKinnon) is being blackmailed by the evil Tessie (Lorna Lantaur) into stealing money. Bob takes the blame to protect his brother.

Dick and Bob both fall in love with Ruth. Bob tries to forget her by going out back and almost dies in the desert, but is rescued by an Afghan camel driver. He returns home and is blamed for another robbery, but is cleared of the charges and is united with Ruth.

Cast

  • Tal Ordell as Bob Brothers
  • John Cosgrove as One-eyed Bogan
  • Robert MacKinnon as Dick ebb
  • Ernest T. Hearne as Steelman
  • Gilbert Emery as Smithy
  • J. P. O'Neill as Tom Mitchell
  • Charles Beetham as Tom Wall
  • Alf Scarlett as bank manager
  • Elsie McCormack as Ruth
  • Lorna Lantaur as Tessie Brand
  • Rita Aslin as Mrs Stiffner
  • May Renne as Mrs Brighten
  • James Ward as Old Tallyho
  • Charles Villers as Andy Regan
  • Henry Lawson as himself

    • Production

    Beaumont Smith had previously adapted Lawson's for the stage in 1916, and it toured Australia for that and the following year. Members of the cast for the play appeared in Smith's debut feature, Our Friends, the Hayseeds (1917).

    Smith shot and edited the film from July to August 1921 in and around Windsor and Redclay in New South Wales. His assistant director was Phil K. Walsh, who later directed two Australian films. Lawson himself appears in a brief prologue.

    Reception

    Commercial results were strong.

    References

    While the Billy Boils Wikipedia
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    While the Billy Boils IMDb