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Advertisement, Queensland Times, 5 October 1932, p.9
form y separately published work icon The Sentimental Bloke single work   film/TV   humour  
Adaptation of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke C. J. Dennis , 1915 selected work poetry
  • Author:agent C. J. Dennis http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/dennis-c-j-clarence-james
Issue Details: First known date: 1932... 1932 The Sentimental Bloke
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With a screenplay written by C. J. Dennis, based on his collection of verse published as The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, this cinematic adaptation similarly tells the story of Bill, a larrikin of the Little Lonsdale Street Push, who is introduced to a young woman called Doreen. Through the course of their courtship and eventual marriage, Bill transforms from a violence-prone gang member to a contented husband and father.

Although Dennis retains the basic storyline of the poems, he also adds a sub-plot in which Bill saves Doreen's Uncle Jim from an attempted swindle.

Notes

  • Fragments of the original verse appear in titles superimposed over either the action or Hal Gye's accompanying drawings (the same drawings published in the original 1915 volume of poems).

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