Hands across the Sea
( dir. Gaston Mervale
)
Australia
:
Australian Life Biograph Company
,
1912
7594767
1912
single work
film/TV
'A drama teeming with thrilling situations, with the orthodox tale of love and hate skilfully interwoven in a network of crime and intrigue, it could not fail to attract. The escape, in an open boat, of the hero from the French penal settlement at New Caledonia, and his rescue in mid-ocean by a British man-of-war formed the incidents on which the story turned.'
Source:
'Lyric Pictures', The Advertiser, 10 February 1912, p.17.
Premiered in Manchester in 1888, after which it moved to London theatres.
Occasionally performed in Australia in the early twentieth century.
