The Crime and the Criminal

The Crime and the Criminal
The Crime and the Criminal
Directed by	Alfred Rolfe
Starring	Charles Villiers
Production; company	Australian Photo-Play Company
Release date	19 February 1912;
Running time	3,000 feet
Country	Australia
Languages	Silent film; English intertitles

The Crime and the Criminal is a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe. It features the same railway collision as the climax in Do Men Love Women? (1912) which had come out only a few weeks prior. However the plots of the movies are different.^[2]^[3]

The film was set in Sydney and the Kimberley.^[4]

It is considered a lost film.^[5]

References[]

^ "Advertising". The Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 3 February 1913. p. 3.
^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 32
^ "Advertising". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 9 March 1912. p. 5.
^ "Brook's Pictures". Forbes Advocate. NSW: National Library of Australia. 3 May 1912. p. 5.
^ Vagg, S., & Reynaud, D. (2016). Alfred Rolfe: Forgotten pioneer Australian film director. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 10(2),184-198. doi:10.1080/17503175.2016.1170950.

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[1] "Advertising". The Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 3 February 1913. p. 3.

[2] Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 32

[3] "Advertising". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 9 March 1912. p. 5.

[4] "Brook's Pictures". Forbes Advocate. NSW: National Library of Australia. 3 May 1912. p. 5.

[5] Vagg, S., & Reynaud, D. (2016). Alfred Rolfe: Forgotten pioneer Australian film director. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 10(2),184-198. doi:10.1080/17503175.2016.1170950.

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