Caloola, or The Adventures of a Jackeroo
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- 16 October 1911[2]
| Caloola, or The Adventures of a Jackeroo | |
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| Directed by | Alfred Rolfe |
| Based on | novel Caloola by Clement Pratt[1] |
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Running time | 2,000 feet[3] |
| Country | Australia |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
Caloola, or The Adventures of a Jackeroo is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe based on a novel published the previous year by Clement Pratt.[4][5]
An Englishman, Charlie Hargreaves, is falsely accused of an embezzlement and goes to Australia, where he finds work as a jackeroo at Caloola Station. He falls in love with Hilda, the station owner's daughter, but they are both captured by aboriginals.
The girl's parents arrange a search party and come to the rescue, but the chief of the tribe takes the girl. He is about to throw her over a cliff when the jackeroo comes to the rescue. He encounters a bushfire and manages to escape death in a watery grave.[8][9][10]
Chapter headings were:
- Falsely' accused, Dismissed,
- A stranger in a strange land,
- The Jackeroo,
- At Caloola,
- Mutual admiration,
- The bush fire,
- The' alarm,
- At the point of death,
- A timely rescue,
- Love's awakening,
- A cowardly assault,
- Captured by Black,
- Saved from a watery grave,
- Off for the honeymoon.[11]