[3] Clara Gibbings is the straight-talking owner of a London dockland public-house who discovers she is the legitimate (but abandoned) daughter of the Earl of Drumoor.
[7] It was based on a 1929 English play[8] which originally been presented by Thring in Melbourne (one of the cast, Beatrice Day, collapsed and died during rehearsal).
"[16] The film was previewed in September and released in Melbourne at the Mayfair Cinema on 13 October where it was reported as "recording excellent business".
[20] The judges said the film "contained sparkling dialogue supported by competent acting, although the adaptation of the English play on which it was based was inadequate.
[23] Peter Fitzpatrick, biographer of Thring, later described the movie as looking "like a run-of-the-mill British B-picture, and that is at once a badge of proficiency and a mark of its remoteness from everything that Effree stood for.