Monday, November 19, 2012

Play review - "The Man from Outback" (1910) by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan

Bailey and Duggan's follow up to The Squatter's Daughter uses many of the same elements - a feisty squatter's daughter heroine who doesn't do that much, a dashing hero with a family secret (in this case a long-lost brother), an elder character who does almost as much heroic work as the hero, a wastrel villain and his accomplice, a woman who is in love with the baddy but turns him in, an important piece of paper crucial to the finale, captures and escapes. There are some effective bits with a deserted old cabin and it's entertaining in its musty old way.

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