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Greenhide
Greenhide is a 1926 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel. Only part of the film survives today.
Plot.
High society girl Margery Paton (Elsa Chauvel) leaves the city to live on her father's cattle property, run by "Greenhide Gavin" (Bruce Gordon). She carries romantic notions of the bush, of "being swung to the saddle by big brown arms", but Greenhide Gavin is initially only annoyed by her presence. "Greenhide" contains a blossoming romance, and the thwarting
the decadent city vs the authentic country. "The Moth of Moonbi" is a country girl who flutters to the city lights, loses her fortune, but eventually returns home and finds love with her father's trusty stockman.
The film was profitable enough for Chauvel to raise funds for a second film.
Director "Greenhide" (1926).
In "Greenhide" a city girl struggles to cope on a cattle station and gradually finds love with her polar opposite, an extremely taciturn bushman. Like "Moonbi" the