The Opium Runners

The Opium Runners
Production
company
The Gaumont Agency[1]
Release dates
 30 April 1913 (Illawarra)[2]
Running time
 2,000 feet[1]
Country Australia
Language Silent film
English intertitles

The Opium Runners is a 1913 Australian silent film. It is considered a lost film.[3]

It was made by the Gaumont Agency who also made Call of the Bush (1912).[4]

It is possible the movie was based on a collection of short stories called The Opium Runners by FRC Hopkins, who had also written All for Gold.[5][6]

It was advertised as "A Picture that makes you rise from your scat' with excitement A Story with a Perfect Plot and Excop tional' Acting, 'showing many Pretty Typical Scenes of the Australian Bush."[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Advertising.". The Referee. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 26 February 1913. p. 16. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Advertising.". Illawarra Mercury. Wollongong, NSW: National Library of Australia. 25 April 1913. p. 7. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 37
  4. ↑ "Advertising.". The Referee. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 12 March 1913. p. 16. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "TWO AUSTRALIAN BOOKS.". Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser. NSW: National Library of Australia. 12 January 1910. p. 18. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "LATE MR. F. R. C. HOPKINS.". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 22 July 1916. p. 9. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "Advertising.". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. National Library of Australia. 9 June 1913. p. 8. Retrieved 8 June 2015.


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