Ben Hall and His Gang

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Ben Hall and his Gang
Directed by John Gavin
Produced by Herbert Finlay
Stanley Crick
Written by Agnes Gavin[1]
Starring John Gavin
Agnes Gavin
Cinematography Herbert Finlay
Production
company
Crick and Finlay
Release dates
 30 January 1911[2]
Running time
 3,600 feet[3]
Country Australia
Language Silent

Ben Hall and his Gang is a 1911 film about the bushranger Ben Hall, played by John Gavin, who also directed. It is considered a lost film.

Plot

The adventures of bushranger Ben Hall, including:

  • Ben Hall's home.
  • My Child! My Child! You Have No Mother
  • Ben Gambling to Forget his Sorrows.
  • Ben Hall arrested.
  • His First Crime.
  • Ben Hall's sensational escape from Bathurst Gaol.
  • Sticking up three police disguised as shearers.
  • Ben Hall's first robbery under arms.
  • Sticking up the Eugowra Mail.
  • Black Bob shot.
  • The Trooper's leap for life.
  • Hall meeting his false friend.
  • The Wages of Sin.[4][5]

Cast

The characters included:[6]

  • Ben Hall
  • Gilbert
  • Vane
  • O'Meally
  • Dunne

Production

This was the first film Gavin made for the producing team of Stanley Crick and Herbert Finlay after ending his association with H. A. Forsyth and Southern Cross Film Enterprises. Gavin publicly announced he had left Southern Cross in advertising for the film. [7]

Crick and Finlay were based out of offices at 75 York St Sydney.[8]

Reception

The film performed well at the box office.[9][10]

Gavin went on to make three more films for Crick and Finlay (Frank Gardiner, the King of the Road (1911), Keane of Kalgoorlie (1911), The Assigned Servant (1911)), and one for their new company, the Australian Photo-Play Company (The Mark of the Lash (1911)).[11]

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  11. ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 12.
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