Pommy Arrives in Australia

Pommy Arrives in Australia
Directed by Raymond Longford
Written by Raymond Longford
Starring Lottie Lyell
Tien Hogue
Cinematography Franklyn Barrett
Production
company
Release dates
13 September 1913[1]
Country Australia
Language Silent film
English intertitles

Pommy Arrives in Australia is a 1913 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford. The director's first comedy, and the first purely comic feature made in Australia,[2] it is considered a lost film.

Synopsis

An English immigrant is caught up in a series of comic incidents in Australia due to a trio of local tomboys.[3]

Cast

Production

There had been comic shorts made in Australia prior to this movie, such as Percy Gets a Job (1912) but this was the first feature-length comedy.[2] Longford later went on to make the comedy short Ma Hogan's New Boarder.

Reception

The film only had a short run in cinemas and is among Longford's least known works.[4]

References

  1. "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
  2. 1 2 Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 p 48
  3. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 40
  4. "Advertising.". Warwick Examiner and Times (St. Lucia, Qld. : 1867 - 1919) (St. Lucia, Qld.: National Library of Australia). 6 June 1914. p. 1. Retrieved 21 April 2012.

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