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The Hayseeds' Back-blocks Show
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Wikipedia article
'The Hayseeds' Back-blocks Show' is a 1917 Australian rural comedy from director Beaumont Smith. It was the third in his series about the rural family, the Hayseeds.
It is considered a lost film.
Synopsis
Dad Hayseed and his friends from Stoney Creek, including Dad Duggan, Cousin Harold, Sam, Tom, Poppy, Molly, Peter, Hopkins and M'Arthur, decide to hold an agricultural show. They go to Brisbane to ask the Governor of Queensland to open it and he agrees. They form a brass band to play, and the show is a great success.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5639880 "THE HAYSEEDS' BACKBLOCK SHOW." 'The Advertiser (Adelaide)' 1 Nov 1919: 11]
Cast
*Fred MacDonald as Jim Hayseed
*Tal Ordell as Dad Hayseed
*Harry McDonna as Cousin Harold
*Agnes Dobson
*Collet Dobson
Production
Like the first two Hayseed movies, Beaumont Smith used local appeal to make them attractive to audiences. This one was shot around Brisbane.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, 'Australian Film 19001977: A Guide to Feature Film Production', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 73. It was followed by 'The Hayseeds' Melbourne Cup'.
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