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'Joe' is a 1924 Australian silent film comedy directed by Beaumont Smith based on the stories of Henry Lawson about the character Joe Wilson.

It is believed to be a lost film.

Plot



Mary Brand (Constance Graham), the young housekeeper at old Black's station, becomes the wife of Joe Wilson (Arthur Tauchert), the painter. The couple take up farming, but Joe leaves on a business visit to Sydney, and becomes entangled in the affairs of his sister-in-law Barbara (Marie Lorraine), who has been instrumental in the destruction of a dress belonging to her employers. Joe pays for the dress and takes Barbara back to the bush.

Barbara reconciles with Harry Black, old Black's son, who has lately ended an unhappy marriage. Barbara and Harry fall in love.



Action sequences include a bushfire and a ball in the city.

Cast



*Arthur Tauchert as Joe Wilson

*Marie Lorraine as Barbara

*Constance Graham as Mary Brand

*Gordon Collingridge

*Fernande Butler

*Hal Scott

*Dunstan Webb

Production



The movie was the film debut of Marie Lorraine, one of the famous McDonagh sisters. It was shot in June 1924 on location in the Burragorang Valley near Sydney, with interiors at the Rushcutter's Bay studio of Australasian Films. The ball scene was shot at the Ambassador's Dance Palais over a one-day 14-hour shoot.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, 'Australian Film 19001977: A Guide to Feature Film Production', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 121.

The film was known before production as 'When the World Was Wide' and was shot in the under the title 'Plain Joe'.

Reception



The film received better reviews than most of Smith's work and was reportedly a box office success.

See also



*List of lost films

References




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