Wilfred Lucas – The Man from Kangaroo (1920)

“The Man From Kangaroo” was the first film of Australian athlete Rex “Snowy” Baker (1884-1953). It was filmed in September-October 1919 on location in the Kangaroo Valley and at Gunnedah, with interior shots filmed at Sydney’s Theatre Royal. It opened at the Lyceum and Lyric Theatres in Sydney on Saturday 24 January 1920, It appears to have escaped a detailed review in “The Sydney Morning Herald”, but the Adelaide newspaper “The Register” of 28 April 1920 enthused about it in the following terms:

“The Man from .Kangaroo…is a stirring, breathless string of sensational happenings, a remarkably fine picture play, which in genuine daring ‘stunts’ and athletic feats, beats the best from America. In Snowy Baker there is an athlete who is unsurpassed as a daring and accomplished horseman. As a boxer and a swimmer he is also in the foreground. The story presents its bad manager and station cattle thieves, and is interesting and exciting. Snowy Baker performs prodigious feats of daring. The water scenes with his beautiful exhibition dives are admirable. Brownie Vernon proved herself a pleasing natural picture actress as the heroine, and Wilfred Lucas and the others of the cast all do good work.”

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:Intertitles in English