One Hundred Years Ago
One Hundred Years Ago is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Gaston Mervale. It features an early screen performance from Louise Lovely and is considered a lost film.
Plot
The movie was billed as "an Anglo-Australian romantic drama". Jasper Hugh Lovel is sent to prison at Norfolk Island for a crime he did not commit. A woman in England who loves him manages to secure his pardon and they are reunited.There was a duel sequence.
Cast
- Louise Carbasse as Judith
- Harrie Ireland as Katharine
- A.J. Patrick as Lovel
- Godfrey Cass as Captain Ridd
- Alf Scarlett as an Old Jew
- James Martin as a magistrate
- Harry Beaumont as a Burglar
Production
The film was shot at Australian Life Biograph's factory in Manly, New South Wales.Unlike many Australian films of the time, it was an original script, not based on a play. The author was Patrick William Marony.
The story is founded on fact. In an old cell at Norfolk Island may be seen the following inscription: "I, Jasper Hugh Lovel, here proclaim, before God and man, I am innocent. May God avenge me on mine enemy."