Joe (1924 film)

Joe is a 1924 Australian silent film comedy directed by Beaumont Smith based on the stories of Henry Lawson about the character Joe Wilson.

Mary Brand Constance Graham, the young housekeeper at old Blacks station, becomes the wife of Joe Wilson Arthur Tauchert, the painter. The couple take up farming, but Joe leaves on a business visit to Sydney, and becomes entangled in the affairs of his sisterinlaw Barbara Marie Lorraine, who has been instrumental in the destruction of a dress belonging to her employers. Joe pays for the dress and takes Barbara back to the bush. Barbara reconciles with Harry Black, old Blacks son, who has lately ended an unhappy marriage. Barbara and Harry fall in love.The movie was the film debut of Marie Lorraine, one of the famous McDonagh sisters. It was shot in June 1924 on location in the Burragorang Valley near Sydney, with interiors at the Rushcutters Bay studio of Australasian Films. The ball scene was shot at the Ambassadors Dance Palais over a oneday 14hour shoot. ........

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