Pommy Arrives in Australia
1913 Australian film
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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,[3][4][5] Longford called it "the first comedy produced in Australia."[6]
| Pommy Arrives in Australia | |
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| Directed by | Raymond Longford[1] |
| Written by | Raymond Longford |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Franklyn Barrett |
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| Country | Australia |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
It is considered a lost film.
Synopsis
An English immigrant is caught up in a series of comic incidents in Australia due to the actions of a trio of local tomboys.[7]
Two of the film's incidents were described this way: "One day last week a new arrival, dressed in a conventional Norfolk jacket and a cap with the regulation check pattern, stepped out of a tramcar, and, quite ignorant of the fact that Sydney possessed a careful Lord Mayor, absent-mindedly dropped his ticket upon the road. He was pounced upon by one of the City Council's uniformed officials, and there ensued a strenuous and mirth-provoking passage-at-arms between the two. Later on the same 'Pommy' was seen out at La Perouse, surrounded by an excited horde of fearful cannibals, all bent upon testing imported stock."[2]
Cast
- Lottie Lyell
- Tom Cosgrove[8]
- Tien Hogue
- Helen Fergus
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.[3] Longford later went on to make the comedy short Ma Hogan's New Boarder.
