Rip Van Winkle is a lazy man who likes to wander around with his dog, Wolf.
One day, he ventures into the Kaatskill mountains, where he encounters a strange group of men drinking and playing bowls.
The story is a charming tale that depicts how America changed during the Civil War, but in a more subtle way.
The film was made in the wake of a successful Australian season of Joseph Jefferson and Dion Boucicault's theatre adaptation of Washington Irving's 1819 short story "Rip Van Winkle".
"[11] One reviewer of the Prahran Telegraph wrote that star Arthur Styan "has figured in several of the previous productions of the Amalgamated Pictures Ltd., and who makes quite a success of this.