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The Breaking of the Drought
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The Breaking of the Drought

The Breaking of the Drought

1920
Drama
1h 27m
Wallaby Station in the outback is devastated by drought. The sheep are starving, but Jo Galloway (Charles Beetham) and his wife (Nan Taylor) battle on. Their son Gilbert (Rawdon Blandford) falls in with the wrong crowd while studying medicine in Sydney: conman Varsy Lyddleton (John Faulkner) and the seductress Olive Lorette (Marie La Varre). Gilbert forges his mother's cheques to pay for Olive's favours, ruining the family.

Directed by:

Franklyn Barrett

Screenwriter:

Arthur Shirley, Franklyn Barrett, Bland Holt, Jack North

Starring:

Dunstan Webb, Trilby Clark, John Faulkner, Charles Beetham, Rawdon Blandford, Ethel Henry, Marie La Varre, Nan Taylor

Genre:

Drama

Country:

Australia

Language:

None
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The Breaking of the Drought

1920
Drama
1h 27m
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Rated 18 Feb 2018
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Once in a while a silent film from Australia pops up, and this time it's (mostly) tragedy The Breaking of the Drought (1920) that comes my way. Money problems, fatal women, drought, fires and what-not. There is no shortage of obstacles for this melodrama. And it works alright, though it never reaches greatness at any portion of the story. With that said, this is a solid rare survived silent from the land down-under, well on par with the other known features to have survived from the 1920s.
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