Scars of Love (film)

Scars of Love is a 1918 Australian silent film. It is a lost film about which little is known except it is a melodrama featuring a Red Cross nurse and an Anzac soldier which climaxes in the European battlefields of World War I in which both leads die. It deals with the sins of the father visiting the children.[3]

Scars of Love
Directed byWalter S. McColl
Written byWalter S. McColl
StarringWalter S. McColl
Mary McVean
Production
company
Release dates
21 October 1918
1919 (re-release)
Running time
5 reels[2]
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Production

The film was most likely made by wealthy amateur enthusiasts.[4] It was shot in Melbourne.[5]

It was re-released in 1919 as Should Children Suffer.

References

  1. "Local Moving Pictures". The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate. NSW. 18 July 1919. p. 3. Retrieved 23 July 2012 via National Library of Australia.
  2. "ENTERTAINMENTS". The Brisbane Courier. 26 July 1919. p. 15. Retrieved 23 July 2012 via National Library of Australia.
  3. "UNITED THEATRES AND FILMS, LTD". Geraldton Guardian. WA. 14 July 1921. p. 3. Retrieved 23 July 2012 via National Library of Australia.
  4. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 83.
  5. "AUSTRALIAN FILMS". The Sunday Times. Perth. 10 July 1921. p. 6. Retrieved 23 July 2012 via National Library of Australia.


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