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form y separately published work icon The Man from Snowy River single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of The Man from Snowy River A. B. Paterson , 1890 single work poetry
Issue Details: First known date: 1920... 1920 The Man from Snowy River
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Film Details - Beaumont Smith's Productions , 1920

Producers:

Beaumont Smith.

Production Companies:

Beaumont Smith's Productions.

Cast:

Including Cyril Mackay (Jim Conroy), Stella Southern (Kitty Carewe), Tal Ordell (Stingey Smith), Hedda Barr (Helen Ross), John Cosgrove (Saltbush Bill), Robert MacKinnon (Dick Smith), John Faulkner (John Carewe), Charles Beetham (Bill Conroy), Dunstan Webb (Ryan), Nan Taylor (Mrs Potts), and James Coleman (Trooper Scott).

Release Dates:

28 August 1920.

Location:

  • Filmed in the Mulgoa district and the foothills of the Blue Mountains.
  • Contemporary newspaper reports indicated that 'Owing to the drought, the whole district teemed with sheep, cattle, and horses, which had been brought in from the back country to grace along the Nepean River territory; so Mr. Beaumont Smith had the back-blocks brought to him instead of having to go to the devastated back-blocks themselves.' ('The Man from Snowy River', The World's News, 3 July 1920, p.5).
Subjects:
Influenced by:
A. B. Paterson
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