The Remittance Man is an Australian melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln about a thief's reformation.
[6] Nick Deyer sends his eight-year-old daughter Maisie to a ladies' school in Melbourne on the death of his wife.
He meets and falls in love with a grown up Maisie Dwyer who is about to return home to see her father.
On Christmas Eve Ned goes into town and gets drunk, telling the locals about his gold.
However Maisie manages to escape and ride a horse to get help, while the crooks try to beat Roger into saying where the gold is.