Alfred Dampier (play) For the Term of His Natural Life (novel) by Marcus Clarke
Produced by
Charles Cozens Spencer
Starring
Alfred Rolfe Lily Dampier
Cinematography
Ernest Higgins[4]
Edited by
Ernest Higgins
Production company
Spencer's Pictures
Distributed by
Sawyer (US)[5]
Release dates
19 June 1911 (Sydney)[1][2][3] 27 November 1911 (Melbourne)
Running time
4,000 feet[6]
Country
Australia
Languages
Silent film English intertitles
The Life of Rufus Dawes is a 1911 Australian silent film based on Alfred Dampier's stage adaptation of the 1874 novel For the Term of His Natural Life produced by Charles Cozens Spencer.[3][7]
It was also known as The Story of Rufus Dawes, or the Term of His Natural Life[8][9] or The Convict Hero.[10]
The film was the third produced by Charles Cozens Spencer, based on a popular stage adaptation by Alfred Dampier and starring Alfred Rolfe, his wife Lily Dampier and Raymond Longford. The others were Captain Midnight, the Bush King (1911) and Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road (1911). Rolfe then left Spencer to work for the Australian Photo-Play Company under Stanley Crick.
It is considered a lost film.[11]
^"Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
^"BROADWAY THEATRE". The Truth. Sydney. 18 June 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 20 February 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^ ab"Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 June 1911. p. 2. Retrieved 31 March 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Production of Moving Pictures – In America and Australia". Australian Town and Country Journal. Vol. XCVIII, no. 2555. New South Wales, Australia. 18 December 1918. p. 20. Retrieved 21 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Motion Picture News - Lantern: Search, Visualize & Explore the Media History Digital Library".
^"Advertising". Great Southern Herald. Katanning, WA. 21 June 1913. p. 3. Retrieved 1 July 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
^Vagg, S., & Reynaud, D. (2016). Alfred Rolfe: Forgotten pioneer Australian film director. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 10(2),184-198. doi:10.1080/17503175.2016.1170950
^"Advertising". The Referee. Sydney. 31 May 1911. p. 16. Retrieved 31 March 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Advertising". The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser. NSW. 20 October 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 31 March 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^The Convict Hero at IMDb
^Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998,21
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