The Breaking of the Drought
Old fashioned melodrama of a country boy taken advantage of by a couple of city slickers, during one of the periodic droughts that affect Australia, as a result his family is driven into disaster.
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"This Australian silent film, meticulously reconstructed by the National Film and Sound Archive, features some magnificently photographed footage of a drought stricken outback. Starving sheep and cattle, crows feasting on carcasses, a dust-storm, dried up rivers and cracked earth - these are powerful and indelible images. Unfortunately the film-makers felt compelled to accompany this footage with a very weak plot about a farmer and his family. The family go broke, not because of the drought, but because of a wayward son who is lost in the charms of a very portly middle-aged vamp, played with..."
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Debut of actress Trilby Clark.
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Old fashioned melodrama of a country boy taken advantage of by a couple of city slickers, during one of the periodic droughts that affect Australia, as a result his family is driven into disaster.