Ma Hogan's New Boarder | |
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Directed by | Raymond Longford |
Written by | Raymond Longford |
Based on | story by A. Wright[2] |
Produced by | Archie Fraser Colin Fraser |
Starring | Charles Evans Pearl Bambury[3] |
Production company | |
Release date |
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Running time | 2,500 feet[4] |
Country | Australia |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
Ma Hogan's New Boarder was a 1915 film directed by Raymond Longford starring Charlie Chaplin impersonator Charles Evans.[5] In the movie the lead "displays his antics and mannerisms."[6]
It was one of Longford's few films not to feature Lottie Lyell and is considered a lost film.[7]
Cast
[edit]- C. Evans
- B Gilbert
- Q Cross
- E. Vockler
Reception
[edit]Theatre managers offered to "supply cotton and buttons free to all patrons who damage them" during screenings of the film."[8]
The Motion Picture News said that Charles Evans "gave a really clever impersonation of Charles Chaplin" but that "the production was too long to be anything more than ordinary."[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Advertising". The Evening News. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 29 June 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ^ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
- ^ "AMUSEMENT". The Tamworth Daily Observer. NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ^ "Advertising". The Tamworth Daily Observer. NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 51
- ^ "AUSTRALIAN CHAPLAIN". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1915. p. 16. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ^ Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p13
- ^ "Advertising". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ^ "Film News from Foreign Parts", Motion Picture News 11 March 1916, retrieved 23 November 1916