Scenes included: It was based on a stage adaptation of the story by Francis Bret Harte which had proved popular with Australian audiences as performed by George Marlow's Dramatic Company since 1910.
Probably the audience at Melbourne Princess’s last Saturday didn’t seek for Bret Harte’s story in the drama that wore its title, but was merely looking for a mining camp and listening for roars.
The mine, located in America, provides Diver with lurid opportunities in the way of murder and false accusation; but he is ultimately brought to grief by a hero who wins the girl and secures the property, and, in fact, gets the Luck.
The play has been carefully selected for this method of portrayal because it teems with exciting episodes and thrilling incidents in the life of the hard-living westerners.
One part in particular that could never be seen on a stage without the camera is the splendid exhibition of horsemanship shown by a team of rough riders who were specifically employed for the purpose... almost every foot of it [the film] is bristling with exciting incidents.
[32]Table Talk wrote that: Nightly Mr. Walter Dalgieish gives a' descriptive lecture which tends to supply the want of dialogue so adequately that the whole play seems heard as.
for Australians, certainly compare veryfavorably with those manufactured overseas the acting is not marked by' that excess gesture and—to us—overdrawn-marks of yisible emotion, which are so often noticeable' in the picture dramas which have been prepared on the Continent.
"[38] Everyone's later said Buckley's performance in this film and Driving a Girl to destruction "was so marked, even in those early efforts, that she received several flattering offers to continue the work, but it was a medium which did not suit the electric temperament of one who had proved herself to be one of the most versatile soubrettes of the Australian stage, and she preferred to rest on her laurels.