For Australia

A newspaper journalist, Stanley Lane (Boyd Irwin), discovers a German spy ring in Sydney led by Carl Hoffman (Charles Villiers). Lane is captured and imprisoned by Germans on an uncharted Pacific Island.

With the help of half-caste Samoan girl Kana (Alma Rock Phillips) he escapes and destroys a German wireless station in Samoa. He is re-captured and tied to a tree in a crocodile-infested swamp, but Kana saves him again. Later, {{HMAS|Sydney|1912|6}} invades the island and Hoffman runs into the swamp and is eaten by crocodiles.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 55

• Alma Rock Phillips as Kana
• Boyd Irwin as Stanley Lane
• Gwen Burroughs as Mrs De Winter
• Charles Villiers as Carl Hoffman
• Percy Walshe

The film was made with the co-operation of the Australian government.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45369262 |title=The Dandies. |newspaper=The Barrier Miner |location=Broken Hill, NSW |date=2 May 1916 |access-date=13 June 2012 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45336823 |title="Sydney-Emden Fight" At The Royal. |newspaper=The Barrier Miner |location=Broken Hill, NSW |date=4 May 1916 |access-date=13 June 2012 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} It was mostly shot in and around Sydney with some scenes at an aboriginal mission at Brewarrina in northern New South Wales.Marsden, Ralph. 'The Old Tin Shed in Exhibition Street': The J. C. Williamson Studio, Melbourne's Forgotten Film Factory [online]. Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine, No. 157, 2008: 144-153. Availability: {{ISSN|0312-2654}}. [cited 15 Nov 14].{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155524632 |title=Movie "Heavy" Chats Lightly. |newspaper=The Winner |location=Melbourne |date=22 December 1915 |access-date=15 November 2014 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The film was previewed in Melbourne on 18 October 1915. The Winner stated that:

The picture is a distinctly good example of what can be accomplished in locally-made films. The story is interesting... and has the right grip for picture purposes. Some fine natural scenery has been secured for many of the sections, and the Sydney-Emden fight has been cleverly worked out. On the whole, Mr Monte Luke, the director, and all associated with him in the production, have every reason to be proud of their work.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155527204 |title=The Picture Shows. |newspaper=The Winner |location=Melbourne |date=20 October 1915 |access-date=15 November 2014 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}

However the film was not a success at the box office.

The movie was combined with another film, How We Beat the Emden (1915), and the documentary How We Fought the Emden, to make a new movie for release in Britain called For the Honour of Australia (1916). A copy of this survives today.[http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/for-the-honour-of-australia/notes/ Paul Byrnes, For the Honour of Australia] at Australian Screen Online

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• {{IMDb title|0353461}}
• [http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=no;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Id%3A343351;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 For Australia] at National Film and Sound Archive
• [http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/for-the-honour-of-australia/clip2/ Clip from film] at Australian Screen Online

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