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Dir: Raymond Longford

Ralph Manton discovers that his sister Marjory has been seduced and demands to be told the name of the man. Faithful to her lover, she refuses but later Ralph discovers his identity and confronts him. The tables are turned.

Dir: Raymond Longford

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Midnight Wedding perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Raymond Longford

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Raymond Longford

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Tide of Death perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Raymond Longford

A disgruntled crew mutinies against their captain.

Dir: Raymond Longford

1826 in Campbelltown Farley, a settler was supposedly led by the spirit of a murder victim (Frederick Fisher) to the man responsible for his death. Fisher's body was later found in the creek at the spot where Farley first came upon the ghost. Others since have claimed to have seen Fisher's Ghost sitting on the bridge named after him.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Dinkum Bloke perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Raymond Longford

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Raymond Longford

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Mutiny of the Bounty perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Raymond Longford

Girl, in love with newspaper man, who is disapproved by father, returns home after several years of travel to find father, a widower, married, much to her displeasure. They are invited to an entertainment in hotel on top of mountain, where someone shoots the father. Daughter is held on murder charge. A rejected suitor testifies he saw daughter with revolver, but newspaper man discovers revolvers in rejected suitor's room and latter also is arrested, being placed on trial with daughter. Rejected suitor is acquitted, but daughter sentenced to death. Then the father, wearing heavy beard and tanned, appears on the scene, informing them that he is not the dead man whom they supposed and daughter is freed to go to the one whom she loves.

Dir: Raymond Longford

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.