Moonlite

Moonlite is a 1910 bushranger film about Captain Moonlite, played by John Gavin, who also directed. It was also known as Captain Moonlite and is considered a lost film.

In the early 1870s, a New Zealand army officer, Captain George Scott, is caught cheating at cards and brutally beats a fellow officer. Disgraced and discharged, he joins the clergy and falls in love with the beautiful Ruth Clarke, whose brother has embezzled a large amount of money and is going to be arrested. For her sake he robs the Edgerton Bank, and arranges to leave by boat to England. The police arrive as he gets on the boat the Lady Isabelle and although he attempts to swim away he is wounded and arrested. Constables Ryan and Mae have their first case.Scott later escapes from gaol by strangling a warden and releasing another prisoner. He becomes a bushranger under the name of Moonlite, forming a gang which includes Ruths brother. He saves an aboriginal gin called Bunda Bunda from downing, then goes on to rob the gold escort, distributing some of this money to the poor. ........

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