form y separately published work icon Grandad Rudd single work   film/TV   humour  
Adaptation of Gran'dad Rudd : An Australian Comedy Drama in Four Acts 'Steele Rudd' , 1917 single work drama and On Our Selection! 'Steele Rudd' , 1899 selected work short story
Issue Details: First known date: 1935... 1935 Grandad Rudd
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Dad Rudd is a grandfather and a prosperous grazier employing his sons Dave, Joe, and Dan at low wages.
Tired of being treated poorly the sons threaten to leave. Dad increases their wages but raises their rent by an equal amount. When eldest grandchild Betty announces her intention to marry Henry Cook, Dad supports suitor Tom Dalley in his efforts to expose Cook as a liar with a conviction in his past.

[Source: Australian Screen]

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Notes

  • Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper (1980) note that Grandad Rudd demonstrates a clear shift away from the original Dad and Dave/Steele Rudd humour. 'The softening of the rustic caricatures,' they write, 'was perhaps at the expense of their energy and warmth [while] the film's emphasis on Grandad Rudd's overbearing and parsimonious nature seemed to destroy much of the sympathy that he once had from the audience' (p. 224). The Rudd family is also transformed into prosperous farmers, while several newcomers appear in the family to give the film greater dramatic variety.

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