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The Sick Stockrider (1913)

The Sick Stockrider poster
Directed by
Godfrey Cass, W. J. Lincoln
Genre
silent film
Country
Australia
Runtime
14 min
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A stockman lies ill and recalls his life. The film adapts a 19th century poem about a man facing his own death.

melancholicslow-burnnostalgicquietreflectivestarkplotlesspoetic

What happens

The Sick Stockrider is a 1913 film directed by W. J. Lincoln based on the 1870 poem of the same title by Adam Lindsay Gordon. It was the first production from Lincoln-Cass Films and is one of the few Australian silent films to survive in its entirety. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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