Hullo Marmaduke [SEP] country of origin
Hullo Marmaduke
Hullo Marmaduke is a 1924 Australian film comedy drama from director Beaumont Smith about a naive Englishman (Claude Dampier) who comes to Australia as a remittance man.
It is considered a lost film.
Plot.
Marmaduke (Claude Dampier) is the youngest son of a noble English family who is sent out to Australia on the RMS Osterley with his faithful valet Huggett (Jimmy Taylor). At Fremantle he is swindled by two card sharps out of most of his money. He then goes to Adelaide
in South Africa. Taylor was also a member of Dampier's Trump Cards Revue Company.
Reception.
The film was well promoted and proved popular with the public. Smith and Dampier later made "The Adventures of Algy" (1925) together.
External links.
- "Hullo Marmaduke" in the Internet Movie Database
- "Hullo Marmaduke" at the National Film and Sound Archive