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The Hordern Mystery

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The Hordern Mystery
Directed byHarry Southwell
Written byM.F. Gatwood
Based onnovel by Edmund Finn
Produced byHarry Southwell
StarringClaude Turton
Flo Little
CinematographyTasman Higgins
Production
company
Southwell Screen Plays
Release date
  • 23 October 1920 (1920-10-23)[1]
Running time
5,600 feet
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

The Hordern Mystery is a 1920 Australian film directed by Harry Southwell based on an 1889 novel by Edmund Finn (son of Edmund Finn). Unlike many Australian silent films, it still survives today.

Plot[edit]

Money-hungry Gilbert Hordern is married to an adoring wife and has a child. He pretends to be his own evil twin brother so he can marry a millionaire's daughter. He succeeds but is wracked with guilt and confesses. He wakes up and realises it was all a dream.

Cast[edit]

  • Claude Turton as Gilbert Hordern
  • Flo Little as Midge Hordern
  • Floris St George as Laura Yellaboyce
  • Godfrey Cass as Dan Yellaboyce
  • Thomas Sinclair as Peter Mull
  • Beatrice Hamilton as Mrs Mull
  • David Edelsten

Production[edit]

The film was shot in suburban Sydney in mid 1920 under the title The Golden Flame. Commercial reception appears to have been poor.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Filmography", Cinema Papers, June–July 1980 p175
  2. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 102.

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