Scars of Love (film) explained

Scars of Love
Director:Walter S. McColl
Starring:Walter S. McColl
Mary McVean
Studio:Austral Photoplay Company[1]
Runtime:5 reels[2]
Country:Australia
Language:Silent 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

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.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Local Moving Pictures. . . NSW . 18 July 1919 . 23 July 2012 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
  2. News: ENTERTAINMENTS. . . 26 July 1919 . 23 July 2012 . 15 . National Library of Australia.
  3. News: UNITED THEATRES AND FILMS, LTD. . . WA . 14 July 1921 . 23 July 2012 . 3 . 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. News: AUSTRALIAN FILMS. . . Perth . 10 July 1921 . 23 July 2012 . 6 . National Library of Australia.