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While the Billy Boils
While the Billy Boils is a 1921 Australian film from director Beaumont Smith which adapts several stories from Henry Lawson. It is considered a lost film.
Plot.
Bob Brothers (Tal Ordell) is a bushman who quarrelled with his father ten years earlier, left him and changed his name. He returns to his father's station and takes a job there, eventually becoming the union representative of the station hands. His younger brother Dick (Robert MacKinnon) is being blackmailed by the evil Tessie
and the marriage of a girl to another man.
Cast.
- Molly O'Donohue as Laughing Mary
Production.
The movie was shot on location in the New South Wales bush, mostly at the Wollondilly River area near Goulburn, in early 1925. The director had previously worked as an assistant on "While the Billy Boils" (1921) and would direct "The Birth of White Australia" (1928). He also tried to make a film of the novel "Love Blind" but was unable to