The Remittance Man

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox film | name = The Remittance Man | image = | caption = | director = W. J. Lincoln | producer = | writer = W. J. Lincoln | starring = George Bryant<br>Godfrey Cass<br>Roy Redgrave | music = | cinematography = Maurice Bertel | editing = | studio = Lincoln-Cass Films | released = {{Film date|1913|09|15|Melbourne|ref1=<ref>Mary Bateman, 'Lincoln Cass Filmography', ''Cinema Papers'', June–July 1980 p 175</ref>|df=y}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241540709 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Herald |issue=11,812 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=13 September 1913 |accessdate=19 July 2024 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> | runtime = 2,700 feet<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165144644 |title=MOVING PICTURES. |newspaper=The Prahran Telegraph (Vic. : 1889 – 1930) |location=Vic. |date=13 September 1913 |accessdate=7 July 2015 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146842970 |title=THE PICTURE WORLD (Contd.). Who's Who in the Movies |newspaper=Table Talk |issue=3116 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=26 January 1928 |accessdate=19 July 2024 |page=28 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref> | language = Silent film<br>English intertitles | country = Australia | budget = }}

'''''The Remittance Man''''' is an Australian melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln about a thief's reformation.

It was the third film from Lincoln-Cass Films.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165141430 |title=Lincoln-Cass Films Co. |newspaper=The Prahran Telegraph |volume=51 |issue=2707 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=6 September 1913 |accessdate=19 July 2024 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>

It is considered a lost film.<ref>Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p43</ref>

==Plot== Nick Deyer sends his eight-year-old daughter Maisie to a ladies' school in Melbourne on the death of his wife. He does not see her for the next ten years however he provides for her well, and spends a lot of money in town, despite never seeming to work. It turns out that he has discovered gold and is hoarding it.

Roger Colville is a bank clerk in Melbourne who has embezzled the bank's funds to tide him over financial difficulties. He meets and falls in love with a grown up Maisie Dwyer who is about to return home to see her father. After Maisie's departure, the bank discovers it has been robbed and Roger goes into hiding. His family in England later settle with the bank.

Roger goes to Maisie's home town and stops some locals fleecing her father. He takes him home and is reunited with Maisie, then discovers Ned's stash of gold. On Christmas Eve Ned goes into town and gets drunk, telling the locals about his gold. Roger tries to steal the gold but is caught by Maisie. He pleads for redemption and Maisie decides to trust him.

Some villains led by Black Dick attack the house looking for 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. They eventually find it and are about to leave when the townspeople arrive to capture them. Maisie marries Roger and Ned gives them gold as a dowry.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7226292 |title=HOYT'S PICTURE THEATRE. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=4 September 1913 |accessdate=28 January 2012 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45234946 |title=AMUSEMENTS. |newspaper=The Barrier Miner |location=Broken Hill, NSW |date=4 November 1913 |accessdate=28 January 2012 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==Cast== *Roy Redgrave *Godfrey Cass *George Bryant *Tom Cannam *Charles Wheeler * Beryl Bryant

==Reception== A review said the story is "absorbing... and the acting very fine."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165146370 |title=LYRIC THEATRE. |newspaper=The Prahran Telegraph (Vic. : 1889 – 1930) |location=Vic. |date=20 September 1913 |accessdate=7 July 2015 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193457/ ''The Remittance Man''] at IMDb *[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/7609172 ''The Remittance Man''] at AustLit {{W. J. Lincoln}}

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