How McDougall Topped the Score

How McDougall Topped the Score
Directed byVictor Upton-Brown
Written byVictor Upton Brown
Based onpoem by Thomas Edward Spencer
Production
company
Pacific Screen Plays[1]
Release date
  • 10 November 1927 (1927-11-10)
Running time
5 reels
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles
Budget£800[2]

How McDougall Topped the Score is a 1924 Australian silent film directed by Victor Upton-Brown. It is based on a famous poem by Thomas Edward Spencer about a cricket match won when a dog steals a ball, enabling the batting team to score plenty of runs.[2]

It is considered a lost film.

  1. ^ ""HOW McDOUGAL TOPPED THE SCORE."". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 3 November 1924. p. 11. Retrieved 31 July 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ a b Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 123.