The Lust for Gold is a 1922 Australian silent film directed by Roy Darling.[2]

The Lust for Gold
Directed byRoy Darling
StarringDorothy Hawtree
Gilbert Emery
Charles Villiers
Production
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Olympic Films
Release date
  • 1922 (1922)
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles
Budget£900[1]

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Despite starring several well-known actors, including Gilbert Emery of The Sentimental Bloke (1919), the film only received a limited release. Darling invested £400 of his own money to make the movie and lost it all, causing him to complain at the 1927 Royal Commission into the Australian Film Industry about unfair exhibition practices in Australia.[3] Darling later made Daughter of the East (1924) with Dorothy Hawtree, star of this film.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 114.
  2. ^ Lust for Gold at National Film and Sound Archive
  3. ^ "FILM INDUSTRY". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 20 June 1927. p. 14. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
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