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Scars of Love (film)

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Scars of Love
Directed byWalter S. McColl
Written byWalter S. McColl
StarringWalter S. McColl
Mary McVean
Production
company
Release dates
  • 21 October 1918 (1918-10-21)
  • 1919 (1919) (re-release)
Running time
5 reels[2]
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Scars of Love is a 1918 Australian silent film. It is a lost film about which little is known except it is a melodrama featuring a Red Cross nurse and an Anzac soldier which climaxes in the European battlefields of World War I in which both leads die. It deals with the sins of the father visiting the children.[3]

Production

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The film was most likely made by wealthy amateur enthusiasts.[4] It was shot in Melbourne.[5]

It was re-released in 1919 as Should Children Suffer.

References

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  1. ^ "Local Moving Pictures". The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate. NSW. 18 July 1919. p. 3. Retrieved 23 July 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "ENTERTAINMENTS". The Brisbane Courier. 26 July 1919. p. 15. Retrieved 23 July 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "UNITED THEATRES AND FILMS, LTD". Geraldton Guardian. WA. 14 July 1921. p. 3. Retrieved 23 July 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 83.
  5. ^ "AUSTRALIAN FILMS". The Sunday Times. Perth. 10 July 1921. p. 6. Retrieved 23 July 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
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