Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road

Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road
Directed byAlfred Rolfe
Written byAlfred Rolfe
Based onPlay by Alfred Dampier & Garnet Walch
Novel by Rolf Boldrewood
Produced byCosens Spencer
StarringAlfred Rolfe
Lily Dampier
CinematographyErnest Higgins
Edited byErnest Higgins
Production
company
Spencer's Pictures
Release date
  • 16 March 1911 (1911-03-16)[1][2]
Running time
3,500 feet[3]
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road is a 1911 Australian silent film about the bushranger Captain Starlight. It was based on Alfred Dampier's stage adaptation of the 1888 novel Robbery Under Arms.[4] It is considered a lost film.[5]

  1. ^ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p 51
  2. ^ "Advertising". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 12 March 1911. p. 1. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Advertising". The Mercury. Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 2 May 1911. p. 6. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  4. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998,14
  5. ^ 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