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Romance of Runnibede (1928 silent film)

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National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)
Phillips Film Productions
Rudd, Steele, 1868-1935
Dunlap, Scott R.

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National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)

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Dorothy Winchester returns home from school in Sydney to her family's cattle station, Runnibede in northern Queensland, where she finds two local men equally eager for her hand in marriage. Some local Aborigines believe that Dorothy is their 'great white queen' returned from the dead, and aroused by an evil witch-doctor, they kidnap her. -- Original film produced in 1928. -- Adapted from the story by Steele Rudd. -- Director, Scott R. Dunlap; producer, Frederick Phillips. -- Eva Novak (Dorothy Winchester), Gordon Collingridge (Tom Linton), Claude Saunders (Sub-Inspector Dale).

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This video recording is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Australian National University.

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