The Squatter's Daughter (1933 film)
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The Squatter's Daughter is a 1933 Australian melodrama directed by Ken G. Hall and starring Jocelyn Howarth. One of the most popular Australian films of the 1930s, it is based on a 1907 play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan which had been previously adapted to the screen in 1910.
The Squatter's Daughter | |
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Directed by | Ken G. Hall |
Written by | Gayne Dexter E. V. Timms |
Based on | play by Bert Bailey & Edmund Duggan |
Produced by | Ken G. Hall |
Starring | Jocelyn Howarth Grant Lyndsay |
Cinematography | Frank Hurley George Malcolm |
Edited by | George Malcolm William Shepherd |
Music by | Frank Chapple Tom King |
Production company | |
Release date | 29 September 1933 (Australia) |
Running time | 104 mins (Australia) 90 mins (England) |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Budget | £16,000[1][2] or £11,000[3][4] |
Box office | £35,000[5][6] or £28,000[7] £7,500 (UK)[8] |
It has been described as "part of an Australian subgenre, the outdoors colonial melodrama... stories set on outback stations featuring unscrupulous farmers, heroic foremen, upper class twits visiting from England, family secrets and feisty horse-riding heroines. The latter formed the "squatter’s daughter" archetype – the brave, beautiful farm girl who galloped away from bushfires – and meant female starring roles were often stronger in Australian rather than American westerns. "[9]