Our Friends, the Hayseeds

Our Friends, the Hayseeds is a 1917 Australian rural comedy from director Beaumont Smith. It centers on the rural family, the Hayseeds, and their rivalry with a neighbouring family, the Duggans.

The Hayseeds and Duggaans live on selections next to each other. Joe Hayseed and Pansy Duggan want to get married but their families quarrel when the Hayseeds cow gets into the Duggans corn and they are forbidden to see each other. The two families have a brawl on the bush fence, a fight that only ends in exhaustion. However, a bush fire unites them and Jim and Pansy marry. Pansy falls pregnant and Dad Hayseed and Dad Duggan both hope for a boy which will be named after them. She ends up giving birth to twin girls.The film was divided into four sections the first two dealing with a day in the life of the Hayseeds the last two under the title Pansys Wooing with Joe and Pansys courtship. A contemporary reviewer said that of the films 5,000 foot length, 1,000 feet was dedicated to humorous titles. ........

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