Moonlite (1910)

Directed by

John Gavin

Genre

silent film, bushranging film

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This lost silent film tells the story of the real-life bushranger Captain Moonlite. John Gavin both acted as the outlaw and directed the movie. It was part of a series of Australian bushranger films made in the early 1910s.

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What happens

Moonlite is a 1910 Australian bushranger film about Captain Moonlite, played by John Gavin, who also directed for producer H.A. Forsyth. It was also known as Captain Moonlite and is considered a lost film. It followed on the success of an earlier bushranger biopic, Thunderbolt (1910), also made by Gavin and Forsyth, and like that it co-starred Ruby Butler and was shot by A.J. Moulton. The movie was part of the Australian "bushranger film" cycle from 1910-1912. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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