Cirrus@Austlit

'As the story of "Peter Vernon's Silence" is unfolded on the screen the actors graphically bring to the surface the elements that prompted Peter Vernon to forfeit his freedom and take the responsibility ot a crime committed by his foster-brother. To the dramatic climax the noble qualities of that mute appeal to humanity, "As we forgive them," are strikingly manifested.'

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'Amusesments', Advocate [Burnie, Tasmania], 20 February 1929, p.6.

'The story is centred on "Mateship,'' that mystic word that carries the whole gamut of human emotion and causes one man to stick to another through thick and thin. Two mates, an Australian and an Englishman, take to the bush for their sustenance, and apply the usual formula, 'What's the chance of a job, boss?' with varying humorous results. Thus the Englishman's efforts as a farm hand are ludicrous, whilst the Aussie shapes little better as a cook on a station. Tackling all sorts of jobs they at last find their fortune in gold, but the Aussie goes out over a cliff. In the end he is discovered as Mad Joe, a wanderer of the roads, and an operation returns him to his usual self again.'

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'The Bushwhackers', Bunyip [Gawler, South Australia], 11 September 1925, p.3.

Based on Australia's best-known ghost story, Raymond Longford's film is an account of the real-life murder of James Frederick Fisher and his ghostly vengeance on the man who killed him. Fisher, a resident of Campbelltown (New South Wales), disappeared in June 1826. Some four months later, his apparition appeared before a settler named Farley and claimed that his neighbour George Worrall was the murderer. The ghost then led Farley along a creek bank to a place where Fisher's body was later recovered from the water. Farley's experience subsequently led to the arrest, trial, and eventual execution of Worrall.