Sea Dogs of Australia (1913)

Directed by

Martyn Keith

Genre

silent film

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Australian naval officer is blackmailed into helping a foreign spy. The film was pulled from release due to security concerns about its footage of a real battleship.

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What happens

Sea Dogs of Australia is a 1913 Australian silent film about an Australian naval officer blackmailed into helping a foreign spy. The film was publicly released in August 1914, but was almost immediately withdrawn after the Minister for Defence expressed security concerns about footage of the battlecruiser HMAS Australia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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