The overseer urges some local Aborigines to kill Earl but one of them, Budgerie, alerts the station men by writing a message on a spear.

[12] Star Charles Villiers later recalled: We were anxious to get local color for an Australian picture, and it was decided to take the players and cameraman to Brewarrina, New South Wales, at which place there is a mission for blacks.

On arrival an interview with the mission superintendent followed and it was agreed that we could have the services of the – blacks for picture purposes at an all-round rate of 2/ per day for each person.

A report in The Referee said " A company, under the direction of Mr. Alfred Rolfe, has just returned from a week's spell amongst the blacks, where a drama introducing the true aboriginal has_been secured.

[18] One critic praised the movie saying "apart from its thrilling incident, the film was particularly instructive to those without knowledge of the wild Australian aboriginal, as it showed them the grotesqueness of an indigenous blackfellow when in full warpaint.

"[19] The Malvern Standard called it "a wonderfully produced photo-play" where "A notable feature is the extraordinary Wild Blacks Corrobboree.

A strangely fantastic effect was obtained by the introduction of a tribe of genuine Australian alboriginals, whose grotesque war-painted bodies added to their weird corroborées.