{{short description|1921 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Rudd's New Selection | image = | caption = | director = Raymond Longford | producer = E. J. Carroll | writer = Raymond Longford | based_on = stories by Steele Rudd | starring = J. P. O'Neill<br>Tal Ordell<br>Lottie Lyell | music = | cinematography = Arthur Higgins | studio = Southern Cross Picture Productions<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63351258 |title=SOUTHERN CROSS FEATURE FILM COMPANY, LIMITED. |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=23 December 1921 |accessdate=18 March 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> | editing = Arthur Higgins | distributor = E. J. Carroll<br>Dan Carroll | released = {{Film date|1921|05|28|df=yes}} | runtime = 6,000 feet<ref name="papers">"Raymond Longford", ''Cinema Papers'', January 1974 p51</ref> | country = Australia | language = Silent film <br>English intertitles | budget = }}
'''''Rudd's New Selection''''' is a 1921 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on the Dad and Dave stories by Steele Rudd. It is a sequel to ''On Our Selection'' (1920).<ref name="our">{{cite magazine|date=30 August 2025|access-date=30 August 2025|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-films-on-our-selection/|title=Forgotten Australian Films: On Our Selection}}</ref> The plot concerns the marriage of Dave Rudd (Tal Ordell) and introduces a sister, Nell (Lottie Lyell).<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15947850?searchTerm=%22rudd's%20new%20selection%22%20longford&searchLimits=l-category=Article%7Ccategory%3AArticle 'NEW MOVING PICTURE. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION', ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Thursday 26 May 1921 p 10]</ref>
Although popular on release, the movie is now considered lost.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/RuddsNewSelection1921.html |title=Rudd's New Selection |publisher=silentera.com |accessdate=6 March 2013}}</ref>
==Synopsis== The movie is set eight years after the events of ''On Our Selection''. The Rudd family are now more prosperous, but Dad is as autocratic as ever. His children are grown up and the baby twins are up to mischief Dave is married and tries to do as little work as possible, but is forced to do so by his wife and domineering mother.
Dave's sister Nell is pursued by the Regan brothers, the younger of whom, Jim, was a decorated returned soldier, the elder, Jack, a drunkard. The two brothers fight over Nell and Jack commits suicide. Jim is arrested for his murder but the truth comes out at the end and he and Nell are married.
There are other comic subplots, including one where Mr Dandelioon, a prohibitionist candidate for parliament, visits the Rudds and Joe laces his tea with rum.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53993768 |title=EARL'S COURT. |newspaper=The Morning Bulletin |location=Rockhampton, Qld. |date=20 December 1921 |accessdate=18 March 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65035838 |title="RUDD'S NEW SELECTION.". |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=15 October 1923 |accessdate=28 July 2012 |page=12 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==Cast== *J.P. O'Neill as Dad Rudd<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20501007 |title=WORLD OF PICTURES. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=13 August 1921 |accessdate=18 March 2012 |page=17 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> *Ada Clyde as Mum *Tal Ordell as Dave Rudd *Lottie Lyell as Nell *Charlotte Beaumont as Sarah *Gilbert Emery as Mr Dandelion *Louis Fors as Joe *Billy Williams as Jack Regan *Ernest T Hearn as Jim Regan *Dick Varley as storekeeper *Clyde Marsh as Trooper Brady *May Renne as Lily *William Coulter as Grogan *Ada St Claire as Mrs Banks *Meadow Peel as Matilda *Anne Parsons as Mrs McFluster
==Production== Shooting began in late 1920 on location in the Megalong Valley, with interiors shot in the Carrolls' Studio at Waverly. The romantic male lead was Ernest Hearne, an ex-soldier from Queensland.<ref>Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 106.</ref>
Rudall Hayward worked on the film as an assistant.<ref>[http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/biographies/4h22/1 L. R. Shelton. 'Hayward, Rudall Charles Victor – Biography', from the ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand'', updated 1-Sep-10] accessed 22 November 2012</ref>
==Reception== Reviews were good.<ref>{{Citation | title=Everyones | date=1920 | publisher=Everyones Ltd | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-534516021 | accessdate=4 June 2018 }}</ref>
===Box Office=== Steele Rudd later claimed the film earned £2345 in one cinema alone, from which the producers earned £519. This sort of return helped disillusion him with the film industry.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57980809 |title=MOVIE PRODUCTION IN W.A. |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=Perth |date=25 December 1921 |accessdate=18 March 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==See also== *List of lost films
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0012638}} *[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=no;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Id%3A342594;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 ''Rudd's New Selection''] at National Film and Sound Archive *[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/RuddsNewSelection1921.html ''Rudd's New Selection'' at SilentEra]
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