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called it "a laudable attempt to stimulate recruiting" where "the melodrama, devised by W. J. Lincoln, introduces a lot of military spectacle, and the storming of the Gallipoli cliffs tickled up the soldier section of the audience when the film was submitted to private view at Her Majesty’s (Melb.)."
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Max Huitzell (Leslie Victor), a German-American clerk in the War Office, is being blackmailed by a German spy (Norman Easty), transmitting information by wireless from his attic. The spy's adopted daughter Freda (Dorothy Cumming) falls in love with Edgar (Cyril Mackay), the son of the War Minister
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said it "must be placed amongst the best Australian achievements" and Lincoln "succeeded in producing a strong story of German intrigue and cunning, of patriot-ism and valor all happening within our gates."
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Another review in the same magazine called it, "A trifle deliberate in the development of the story, perhaps, but a good, stirring sample of what Australia can do in this line."
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called it "a really good war story, which is exceptional... Frank Harvey... deserves all the credit that can be given him for making such an interesting picture."
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near Sydney. Other location work was shot in Melbourne, and some interiors done at Melbourne's JCW Studio.
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Although it was the third movie they made, it was the first of their movies to be released.
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Reviews were very positive and the film was a popular success at the box office.
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This was the first original feature film from the theatrical company
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Index

Frank Harvey
W. J. Lincoln
The Man Who Stayed at Home
J. E. Harold Terry
Frank Harvey
Monte Luke
Maurice Bertel
J. C. Williamson Ltd
Silent
German Empire
Ottoman Empire
World War I
Gaba Tepe
Gallipoli campaign
The Man Who Stayed at Home
lost film
Gallipoli campaign

Cyril Mackay
Frank Harvey
Dorothy Cumming
J. C. Williamson Ltd
film production
Lincoln-Cass Films
Maurice Bertel
W. J. Lincoln
J. C. Williamson Ltd
The Man Who Stayed at Home
Frank Harvey
W. J. Lincoln

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