director:
Raymond Longford
actor:
Lottie Lyell
/
Raymond Longford
/
Augustus Neville
/
Sybil Wilde
/
William Coulter
…
genre:
Adventure
/
Drama
region:
Australia
/
United States
length: 26m
release date: 1911-08-06
IMDb: tt0001862
overview
The story is founded on fact. In a village on the south coast of England, young Margaret Catchpole is being courted by two rivals, Will Laud, a smuggler, and Lieutenant Barry of the coast guards. She favours Laud, and when he escapes from custody after a government raid on the smugglers, Margaret steals a horse and tries to join him. In a fight with the coast guards, Laud is killed an Margaret is arrested for horse-stealing and transported to Botany Bay. Only part of the film survives today.