Sunrise (1926 film)

Not to be confused with the 1927 American film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.

Sunrise
Directed by	Raymond Longford F. Stuart-Whyte
Written by	Martyn Keith Mollie Mead
Starring	Phyllis du Barry Robert Travers
Cinematography	Charles Ellis Len Roos
Production company	Australasian Films A Master Picture
Distributed by	Union Theatres
Release dates	16 October 1926^[1]
Running time	6,000 feet
Country	Australia
Language	Silent film English intertitles

Sunrise is a 1926 Australian silent film co-directed by Raymond Longford, who took over during filming.^[2] It was the second film from Australasian Films following their recommencement of production, after Painted Daughters.

It is considered a lost film.

Plot

George Willis loses his unfaithful wife in a rock fall and takes to the bush He rescues a girl, Hope Stuart, from a flood and nurses her back to health. When he brings her back to her father he discovers that an old enemy, Arthur Greerson, has accused him of murder.

Greerson is injured in a mining accident and after George rescues him, Greerson admits he has lied. George returns to his life as a recluse in the mountains, followed by Hope.

Cast

Phyllis du Barry as Hope Stuart
Robert Travers as George Willis
Zara Clinton as Elsa Willis
Harry Hodson as Old Ben
Charles Villiers^[3]
Dunstan Webb as Arthur Greerson
Dick Thonton

Production

The film was shot on location in the Blue Mountains at Bargo with interiors at the studios of Australasian Films in Bondi.^[4] F. Stuart Whyte began directing but left Australia during shooting for unknown reasons. He was replaced by Longford, who had recently contracted to Australasian Films.^[5]

References

↑ "LYRIC THEATRE.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 16 October 1926. p. 14. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
↑ "AUSTRALIAN FILM." Cairns Post, 16 Nov 1925: 2 accessed 31 December 2011
↑ "PERSONALITIES OF TORONTO MURDER TRIAL.". The Evening News. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 30 June 1925. p. 16. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
↑ "THE MAJESTIC.". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 26 March 1927. p. 6. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
↑ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51

External links

Sunrise at the Internet Movie Database
Sunrise at National Film and Sound Archive

Films directed by Raymond Longford

1910s	The Fatal Wedding (1911) The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1911) Sweet Nell of Old Drury (1911) The Tide of Death (1912) The Midnight Wedding (1912) Australia Calls (1913) Pommy Arrives in Australia (1913) 'Neath Austral Skies (1913) The Silence of Dean Maitland (1914) The Swagman's Story (1914) Taking his Chance (1914) (short) Trooper Campbell (1914) (short) We'll Take Her Children in Amongst Our Own (1915) (short) Ma Hogan's New Boarder (1915) (short) The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916) A Maori Maid's Love (1916) The Church and the Woman (1917) The Woman Suffers (1918) The Sentimental Bloke (1919)

1920s	On Our Selection (1920) Ginger Mick (1920) Rudd's New Selection (1921) The Blue Mountains Mystery (1921) The Dinkum Bloke (1923) Australia Calls (1923) An Australian by Marriage (1923) Fisher's Ghost (1924) The Bushwhackers (1925) Peter Vernon's Silence (1926) The Pioneers (1926) Sunrise (1926) Hills of Hate (1926)

1930s	The Hayseeds (1933) (asst director) Splendid Fellows (1934) (asst director) The Man They Could Not Hang (1934)

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