The Swagman's Story is a 1914 short film directed by Raymond Longford. Although considered a lost film, it is likely that it was a low-budget support feature.[3]
Longford claimed the film was refused a release by "the Combine" who dominated Australian exhibition.[4]
Plot
A swagman arrives on the scene of the breakdown of a motor car and tells the honeymooning drivers that he's never liked motor cars as they've never done him any good. He then goes on to explain why – ten years earlier he was living happily with his wife and pretty daughter (Lottie Lyell). Then the daughter marries a "swell city cove" and she becomes a member of the high society set, refusing to meet her unsophisticated mother. The mother is killed by a motor car and the father takes to drinking and becomes a swagman.[5]
Cast
Lottie Lyell
J Martin
C Stevenson
G Corti
References
^"Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
^"MOVING PICTURES". The Referee. Sydney. 15 April 1914. p. 15. Retrieved 1 September 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
^Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 46
