The Eleventh Hour is a 1912 Australian silent film. It is considered a lost film.
Plot The script is based on a play "showing the adventures and vicissitudes in the life of a Girl Telegraphist".> "Advertising." The Sydney Morning Herald 13 April 1912
The action consisted of four acts: Act 1 – 'Pangs of Jealousy' Act 2 – 'Bad Blood' Act 3 – 'The Distress Call' Act 4 – 'The Eleventh Hour'
Cast Cyril Mackay Sidney Stirling Leonard Willey Charles Lawrence Loris Brown Irby Marshall
Production Of Sydney Stirling, Barrett wrote "I never knew an actor so responsive to direction, so keen to size up a situation and command it.”
Production The cast worked for JC Williamsons.
Release The film was shot in Sydney and released in that city in 1912. It screened in London in September 1913 under the title Saved by Telegram.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 34.
The critic from The Sydney Morning Herald said that "the story is a thrilling one, whilst the cinematographic work of Mr. Franklyn Barrett, the West expert, is particularly good."
The Sun called it "one of the finest pictures yet shown under the West, Ltd., management. The play itself, too, has much to commend it, especially since the love story running through it is not of a maudlin character. The piece is splendidly acted."
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