For the Honour of Australia

For the Honour of Australia
Directed by	Monte Luke Alfred Rolfe
Starring	Boyd Irwin Charles Villiers
Cinematography	Maurice Bertel
Production company	J.C. Williamson Ltd Australasian Films
Release dates	1916 (UK)
Country	Australia
Language	Silent film English intertitles

For the Honour of Australia is a 1916 film composed of footage from two 1915 Australian silent films, For Australia and How We Beat the Emden, plus the documentary How We Fought the Emden.

Plot

Jack Lane joins the Royal Australian Navy and trains on Tingira. His brother Stanley discovers a German spy ring amongst the social set in Sydney. They capture him and take him to a secret island outpost. Germans are about to destroy an Allied radio station but it manages to alert HMAS Sydney beforehand and the ship attacks German sailors. A half-caste islander, Kana (Alma Rock Phillips), leads HMAS Sydney to the spies' island. A landing party attacks and kills the spies but Kana is killed.

Cast

Boyd Irwin as Stanley Lane
Gwen Burroughs as Mrs De Winter
Alma Rock Phillips as Kana
Charles Villiers as Carl Hoffman
Percy Walshe

Production

For Australia and How We Fought the Emden were films made by rival companies but were put together for release in Britain. It is unsure what company did this but the films were made with the approval of both the Australian and British governments.^[1]

References

↑ Paul Byrnes, For the Honour of Australia at Australian Screen Online

External links

Films directed by Alfred Rolfe

Captain Midnight, the Bush King (1911)
Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road (1911)
The Life of Rufus Dawes (1911)
Dan Morgan (1911)
Moora Neya, or The Message of the Spear (1911)
The Lady Outlaw (1911)
Mates from the Murrumbidgee (1911)
In the Nick of Time (1911)
Way Outback (1911)
What Women Suffer (1911)
The Cup Winner (1911)
Caloola, or The Adventures of a Jackeroo (1911)
The Miner's Curse (1911)
King of the Coiners (1912)
Do Men Love Women? (1912)
The Sin of a Woman (1912)
The Crime and the Criminal (1912)
Cooee and the Echo (1912)
The Love Tyrant (1912)
The Cheat (1912)
Won on the Post (1912)
Whose Was the Hand? (1912)
The Moira, or Mystery of the Bush (1912)
The Day (1914)
The Sunny South or The Whirlwind of Fate (1915)
Will They Never Come? (1915)
The Hero of the Dardanelles (1915)
The Loyal Rebel (1915)
How We Beat the Emden (1915)
A Man - That's All (1916)
For the Honour of Australia (1916)
Cupid Camouflaged (1918)

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