An Australian movie loosely based on a true story that is based largely in Britain. Lottie Lyell - considered by many to be Australia's first movie star - plays the title character, who finds herself shipped off to the former colony after trying to help her smuggler lover (director Raymond Longford) escape the clutches of the law. An uneven film - the ending of which is now lost - in which moments of over-emoting alternate with performances of comparative restraint for the time, and with seemingly endless shots of characters walking slowly towards the camera or riding horses.
Review of Queen of the Smugglers
