The Breaking of the Drought (1920)
1h 27m
Running Time
January 1, 1920Release Date
The Breaking of the Drought (1920)
1h 27m
Running Time
January 1, 1920Release Date
Plot.
Wallaby Station in the outback is devastated by drought. The sheep are starving, but Jo Galloway (Charles Beetham) and his wife (Nan Taylor) battle on. Their son Gilbert (Rawdon Blandford) falls in with the wrong crowd while studying medicine in Sydney: conman Varsy Lyddleton (John Faulkner) and the seductress Olive Lorette (Marie La Varre). Gilbert forges his mother’s cheques to pay for Olive’s favours, ruining the family. A bank takes ‘friendly possession’ of Wallaby Station. Gilbert’s sister Marjorie (Trilby Clark) keeps her brother out of jail, but he becomes a tramp, after Lyddleton murders Olive and kills himself. Marjorie’s suitor Tom Wattleby (Dunstan Webb) saves Gilbert from a bushfire, just as the drought breaks, restoring the family’s fortunes. Marjorie and Tom can now wed, as the sheep and cattle fatten on rich pasture.
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Cast & Crew.
Charles Beetham
Jo Galloway
Nan Taylor
Mrs. Galloway
Rawdon Blandford
Gilbert Galloway
Trilby Clark
Marjorie Galloway
Dunstan Webb
Tom Wattleby
Ethel Henry
Molly Henderson
Marie La Varre
Olive Lorette
John Faulkner
Varsy Lyddleton
Details.
Wiki.
The Breaking of the Drought is a 1920 Australian silent film from director Franklyn Barrett based on the popular play by Bland Holt and Arthur Shirley. According to Graham Phillips, this film is one of the most damaged films in Australia's film archive, although few sequences have severe damage in the film.
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