Ma Hogan's New Boarder

1915 Australian film

1 July 1915 (1915-07-01)^[1]

Running time

2,500 feet^[4]CountryAustraliaLanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Ma Hogan's New Boarder was a 1915 film directed by Raymond Longford starring Charlie Chaplin impersonator Charles Evans.^[5] In the movie the lead "displays his antics and mannerisms."^[6]

It was one of Longford's few films not to feature Lottie Lyell and is considered a lost film.^[7]

Cast

C. Evans
B Gilbert
Q Cross
E. Vockler

Reception

Theatre managers offered to "supply cotton and buttons free to all patrons who damage them" during screenings of the film."^[8]

The Motion Picture News said that Charles Evans "gave a really clever impersonation of Charles Chaplin" but that "the production was too long to be anything more than ordinary."^[9]

References

^ "Advertising". The Evening News. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 29 June 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
^ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
^ "AMUSEMENT". The Tamworth Daily Observer. NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
^ "Advertising". The Tamworth Daily Observer. NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 51
^ "AUSTRALIAN CHAPLAIN". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1915. p. 16. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
^ Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p13
^ "Advertising". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
^ "Film News from Foreign Parts", Motion Picture News 11 March 1916, retrieved 23 November 1916