The Lust for Gold
{{short description|1922 film}}
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{{Infobox film
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| director = Roy Darling
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| starring = Dorothy Hawtree
Gilbert Emery
Charles Villiers
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| studio = Olympic Films
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| released = {{film date|1922}}
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| country = Australia
| language = Silent film
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The Lust for Gold is a 1922 Australian silent film directed by Roy Darling.[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=%22lust%20for%20gold%22;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Lust for Gold] at National Film and Sound Archive
Release
Despite starring several well-known actors, including Gilbert Emery of The Sentimental Bloke (1919), the film only received a limited release. Darling invested £400 of his own money to make the movie and lost it all, causing him to complain at the 1927 Royal Commission into the Australian Film Industry about unfair exhibition practices in Australia.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16385685 |title=FILM INDUSTRY. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=20 June 1927 |accessdate=8 January 2012 |page=14 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Darling later made Daughter of the East (1924) with Dorothy Hawtree, star of this film.
Cast
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0276305}}
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Category:Australian black-and-white films
Category:Silent Australian drama films
Category:1920s English-language films
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