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Breaking the News
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Wikipedia article
'Breaking the News' is a 1912 Australian melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln based on John Longstaff's 1887 painting of the same name.
It is considered a lost film.
Plot
A prospector looks for a wife to live with him and eventually gets married. While he is in town, the mine floods and miners need to be rescued. The main scenes were:
*mining machinations;
*a woman's sacrifice;
*a man's desperation and love;
*a father's sad mistake
*man's sure revenge.
Cast
*Harrie Ireland
*Arthur Styan
Production
The film was shot at Diamond Creek, near Melbourne.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, 'Australian Film 19001977: A Guide to Feature Film Production', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p32
Reception
The movie was a popular success with critics drawing particular attention to a scene of an underground mine being flooded.Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, 'Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years', Currency Press, 1989, p42 In March 1912 'The Bulletin' wrote "cheers for the big black and white item, Breaking the News. The yarn is excellently acted and photographed, but the plot is not too conspicuous for common-sense."
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