1. Costing around £1,000 to produce, this film was the first of several adaptations of the Bert Bailey/Edmund Duggan (aka Albert Edmunds, q.v.) melodrama. The star, English actress Olive Wilton, had been brought to Australia in 1910 by William Anderson for his dramatic company. Many other members of the company also formed part of the film's cast.
2. The play on which the film is based had been staged on numerous occasions by William Anderson's company since its 1907 debut. That production starred Bert Bailey as the new chum/hero Archie while Edmund Duggan played the bushranger Ben Hall.
3. The Squatter's Daughter was billed as the 'Longest Picture Ever Filmed.' In its review of the Sydney season, the Bulletin magazine suggested that the film had enough horses and girls in it to 'appeal to crowded houses six nights a week' (17 Nov. 1910, n. pag.).
4. Further reference: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper.
Australian Film 1900-1977, A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980, q.v.), pp. 13-14
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