Frank Gardiner, the King of the Road

Frank Gardiner, the King of the Road is a 1911 film about the bushranger Frank Gardiner, played by John Gavin, who also directed. It is considered a lost film.

During the shooting of a scene where troopers were chasing after Gardiner, a horse collapsed and damaged its knee. In another scene which apparently made the final cut, Gardiner fires a pistol point blank in a troopers face, and the latter was burnt and blackened with the powder.The best points about it is Gardiners rescue of Annie Brown from drowning, the delivery from a convicts assault of the gaol governors little daughter, and the finale where the exbushranger, exiled to America, at length after a bitter goal experience realizes the fact that Honesty is the best Policy, which he seeks to inculcate apparently into his daughter and his daughters sweetheart. That it is a thrilling continuation of desperate scenes that should never have occurred in Australia goes without saying, but it has the extremely bad tendency of holding up to the juvenile portion of the audience who applauded most vociferously whenever law and order was trampled upon an utter contempt for one of the most useful, respectable and reputable body of men in the Government service the police. ........

Source: Wikipedia