Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1923


The Twins (1923 film)

Buy The Twins (1923 film) now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




'The Twins' is a 1923 Australian silent film directed Melbourne cinematographer Leslie McCallum. It is a rural farce-melodrama and is considered a lost film.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, 'Australian Film 19001977: A Guide to Feature Film Production', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 117.

Plot



Characters from the country visit the city. Among the characters are a female vamp, who winds up committing suicide.

Cast



*Ray Whiting and Jim Paxton as the twins

*Cath McMicking as heroine

*Aubrey Gibson as villain

*Doreen Gale as vamp

*Jim Doods as Horace Hothouse

*Keith McHarg

*Billy Begg

*Norman Carlyon

Production



The film was made to raise funds for various charities including the Melbourne Women's Hospital. It was sponsored by Carlyon's ballroom in St Kilda; Norman Carlyon appeared in the cast and a fund raising ball was held on 19 June 1923.

Reception



According to contemporary reports, response to the film was positive and money was made from its release.

References




Buy The Twins (1923 film) now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 1923



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1108765292.